{"id":5127,"date":"2022-09-07T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T22:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2022-09-08T05:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:51:17","slug":"montrose-shorebirding-quality-over-quantity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/montrose-shorebirding-quality-over-quantity\/","title":{"rendered":"Montrose Shorebirding &#8211; Quality Over Quantity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2314\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/american-golden-plover-twitter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2314\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/american-golden-plover-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"American Golden-Plover\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2314\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Golden-Plover (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thirty-eight species of shorebirds have been recorded at Montrose and of this 38 about 28 are regular and occur each year. We don&#8217;t get huge numbers  however, usually no more than a few dozen individuals during the height of shorebird migration in May and August. What we lack in volume we more than make up for with great, close-up views. Look at the photo of the American Golden-Plover with this post. It&#8217;s from Montrose Beach and you can see how close the bird came to the photographer. It illustrates how tame and approachable these shorebirds can be. It&#8217;s also one reason why Montrose Beach is so popular with bird photographers. To see more Montrose shorebird pics on this blog, try a keyword search for &#8220;shorebirds&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-eight species of shorebirds have been recorded at Montrose and of this 38 about 28 are regular and occur each year. We don&#8217;t get huge numbers however, usually no more than a few dozen individuals during the height of shorebird migration in May and August. What we lack in volume we more than make up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[82,103],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-history","tag-american-golden-plover","tag-shorebirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5129,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/5129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}