{"id":780,"date":"2013-04-28T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T20:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=780"},"modified":"2019-03-29T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T13:24:12","slug":"smiths-longspurs-april-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/smiths-longspurs-april-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith&#8217;s Longspurs, April 28, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_781\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/smiths_longspurs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-781\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/smiths_longspurs-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Smith's Longspurs\" title=\"Smith's Longspurs\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-781\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/smiths_longspurs-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/smiths_longspurs-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/smiths_longspurs.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male Smith&#8217;s Longspurs. Photo by Matthew Cvetas. (<i>click to see the larger version<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Karen Mansfield and I found a male Smith&#8217;s Longspur in the dunes this morning. The bird was initially in the open sandy and grassy area just south of the cottonwoods, but after a few minutes it flew north and landed in the dunes north of the cottonwoods. We didn&#8217;t follow the bird after the initial observation but others reported that this and a second Smith&#8217;s eventually flew off to the west and were not seen again. This is only the second Smith&#8217;s Longspur I&#8217;ve seen at Montrose in over 30 years of birding there.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Smith&#8217;s, a Grasshopper Sparrow was in roughly the same area of the dunes. I also had a small loon flying north that was almost certainly a breeding plumaged Red-throated. Otherwise we saw nothing else of note and the slow spring migration continues, though I&#8217;m not going to complain too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Mansfield and I found a male Smith&#8217;s Longspur in the dunes this morning. The bird was initially in the open sandy and grassy area just south of the cottonwoods, but after a few minutes it flew north and landed in the dunes north of the cottonwoods. We didn&#8217;t follow the bird after the initial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[145,231],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rare-birds","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-longspurs","tag-smiths-longspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}