{"id":4423,"date":"2021-06-02T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T21:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2021-06-03T08:44:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:44:40","slug":"june-2-2021-blue-headed-vireo-and-lesser-black-backed-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/june-2-2021-blue-headed-vireo-and-lesser-black-backed-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2, 2021 – Blue-headed Vireo and Lesser Black-backed Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lesser Black-backed Gull (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n

I had a couple of nice surprises on June 2. We’ve been seeing and hearing a Blue-headed Vireo for the last few days, and today I found it in the grove at the east end of the Point. Needless to say, it’s getting late for Blue-headed Vireo in northern Illinois – they should be gone by June and on their breeding grounds north of us.<\/p>\n

An immature Lesser Black-backed Gull has been hanging around Montrose Beach. Today I saw it at the east end of the protected beach among the loafing Ring-billed Gulls and Caspian Terns. Lesser Black-backed Gulls are rare at Montrose in the summer. The protected beach is a haven for gulls, terns, and shorebirds to relax and not have to worry about people disturbing them.<\/p>\n

There’s always something to look at and look forward to at Montrose, even with migration winding down. More photos of the Lesser Black-backed Gull and one of the Blue-headed Vireo are at my eBird checklist for the morning, URL below.<\/p>\n

\n eBird Checklist<\/strong>
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I had a couple of nice surprises on June 2. We’ve been seeing and hearing a Blue-headed Vireo for the last few days, and today I found it in the grove at the east end of the Point. Needless to say, it’s getting late for Blue-headed Vireo in northern Illinois – they should be gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[315,105,101,118],"class_list":["post-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-bird-reports","tag-blue-headed-vireo","tag-gulls","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","tag-vireos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423","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=4423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4423\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}