{"id":5434,"date":"2023-05-07T06:39:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T11:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2023-05-07T06:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T11:39:16","slug":"may-6-2023-a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/may-6-2023-a-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May 6, 2023 &#8211; A Good Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 6 lived up to the billing and turned out to be the best day of the spring so far. The persistent south winds brought in a lot of migrants, including many first of seasons. About 130 species were reported to eBird by all observers, which is about as good as we do. Sparrows were well represented, with many White-throated and White-crowned. Warbler variety was low, but it&#8217;s still early. My highlights for the morning include<\/p>\n<p>\nCommon Tern<br \/>\nMerlin<br \/>\nGolden-crowned Kinglet (getting late)<br \/>\nClay-colored Sparrow (3)<br \/>\nLark Sparrow<br \/>\nDark-eyed Junco (getting late)<br \/>\nBobolink (3, all males)<br \/>\nOrchard Oriole<br \/>\nBlack-throated Blue Warbler<br \/>\nDickcissel\n<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re close to the peak of spring migration. The next couple weeks should see an increase in warbler, flycatcher, and <i>Catharus<\/i> thrush numbers. Keep checking weather forecasts for warm fronts, and keep checking the <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/hotspot\/L161180\">Montrose Point eBird Hotspot<\/a> for the latest sightings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 6 lived up to the billing and turned out to be the best day of the spring so far. The persistent south winds brought in a lot of migrants, including many first of seasons. About 130 species were reported to eBird by all observers, which is about as good as we do. Sparrows were [&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":[45,152,63,194,84,120,125,64,47,104,180],"class_list":["post-5434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-black-throated-blue-warbler","tag-bobolink","tag-clay-colored-sparrow","tag-common-tern","tag-dickcissel","tag-hawks","tag-icterids","tag-lark-sparrow","tag-merlin","tag-orchard-oriole","tag-terns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434","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=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}