{"id":3949,"date":"2020-10-31T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T18:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T18:07:07","slug":"october-31-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/october-31-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf Scoter, Iceland Gull, and Wood Thrush, October 31, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2309\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wood-thrush.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2309\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2309\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/wood-thrush.jpg\" alt=\"Wood Thrush\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wood Thrush (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have great expectations for October 31. The forecast called for south winds and south winds in late October never produce many birds at Montrose. Despite the unfavorable weather conditions, I was pleasantly surprised by what I did see. A couple of dead salmon washed up on Montrose Beach that attracted the attention of some Herring Gulls, which attracted the attention of a juvenile Iceland Gull. This was my first Iceland Gull of the season. Another birder alerted me to a scoter on Lake Michigan off the beach that turned out to be a Surf Scoter, another first of the season. The biggest surprise was a late Wood Thrush, the latest Wood Thrush I&#8217;ve had at Montrose, and probably anywhere else. Rounding out the list were four Common Redpolls and a couple of Snow Buntings. I tallied 37 species in three hours of birding. My eBird checklist for the morning has photos of the Iceland Gull and Surf Scoter. Follow the URL below to see it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S75639381\">October 31, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t have great expectations for October 31. The forecast called for south winds and south winds in late October never produce many birds at Montrose. Despite the unfavorable weather conditions, I was pleasantly surprised by what I did see. A couple of dead salmon washed up on Montrose Beach that attracted the attention of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[171,150,105,92,164,77,123,116,137],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-bird-reports","tag-common-redpoll","tag-finches","tag-gulls","tag-iceland-gull","tag-snow-bunting","tag-surf-scoter","tag-thrushes","tag-waterfowl","tag-wood-thrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3965,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}