{"id":4359,"date":"2021-05-14T15:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=4359"},"modified":"2021-05-14T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T22:53:38","slug":"may-14-2021-an-unexpectedly-spectacular-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/may-14-2021-an-unexpectedly-spectacular-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May 14, 2021 &#8211; An Unexpectedly Spectacular Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather conditions didn&#8217;t look great for a large fallout of birds on May 14, but that&#8217;s exactly what happened. I ended up with 98 species in 3.5 hours of birding, and about 130 were reported to eBird by all observers. This is about as good as it gets for Montrose. I had so many personal first of season sightings I lost track. We suffer through January and February for days like this. My highlights include<\/p>\n<p>\nAmerican Woodcock (late)<br \/>\nYellow-throated Vireo<br \/>\nBlue-headed Vireo<br \/>\nClay-colored Sparrow<br \/>\nYellow-breasted Chat<br \/>\nBobolink<br \/>\nOrchard Oriole<br \/>\n22 species of warblers; best were Northern Parula, Black-throated Blue, Pine, Golden-winged\n<\/p>\n<p>Throw in tons of White-crowned Sparrows, scads of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Gray Catbirds, and 3 or 4 male Scarlet Tanagers and you shouldn&#8217;t ever complain about anything again. Link to my eBird checklist for the morning below.<\/p>\n<p>\n <strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S88071588\">May 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather conditions didn&#8217;t look great for a large fallout of birds on May 14, but that&#8217;s exactly what happened. I ended up with 98 species in 3.5 hours of birding, and about 130 were reported to eBird by all observers. This is about as good as it gets for Montrose. I had so many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","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=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}