{"id":4439,"date":"2021-06-10T16:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2021-06-11T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:27:54","slug":"marbled-godwit-june-10-2021-which-way-are-the-shorebirds-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/marbled-godwit-june-10-2021-which-way-are-the-shorebirds-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Marbled Godwit, June 10, 2021 &#8211; Which Way Are the Shorebirds Going?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2423\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/marbled-godwit1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2423\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2423\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/marbled-godwit1.jpg\" width=\"300\" alt=\"Marbled Godwit\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marbled Godwit (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing like seeing a big, brown, long-billed shorebird to lift the spirits and brighten the day. This Marbled Godwit made a brief appearance at Montrose Beach on June 10. It flew off to the south after a few minutes and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>The middle of June is a gray period for shorebird migration. Most northbound migrants have passed through, and it&#8217;s too early for the first southbound migrants. What was this Marbled Godwit doing? Was it a tardy spring migrant? We&#8217;re still seeing Semipalmated and White-rumped Sandpipers, which are late spring migrants, but mid-June is outside the range for northbound Marbled Godwits. What about a southbound migrant? Mid-June seems too early for that, based on historical records. A failed breeder? There&#8217;s no way to know. More photos of the godwit are at my eBird checklist for the morning, URL below.<\/p>\n<p>\n <strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S89934997\">June 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing like seeing a big, brown, long-billed shorebird to lift the spirits and brighten the day. This Marbled Godwit made a brief appearance at Montrose Beach on June 10. It flew off to the south after a few minutes and did not return. The middle of June is a gray period for shorebird migration. [&hellip;]<\/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":[317,103],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-bird-reports","tag-marbled-godwit","tag-shorebirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}