{"id":1016,"date":"2014-10-01T20:39:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T03:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2014-10-01T21:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T04:24:55","slug":"blackburnian-warbler-seen-at-laguna-niguel-regional-park-on-october-1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1016","title":{"rendered":"A Blackburnian Warbler visits Laguna Niguel Regional Park on October 1, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today at around 4pm, I had arrived at Laguna Niguel Regional Park in south Orange County, California in hopes for another attempt at finding the Blackburnian Warbler first seen by Jeff Bray approximately one week ago.\u00a0 Recently, additional reports surfaced that the Blackburnian Warbler was also located by Rob McNab on September 30 and earlier today by Thomas Ford-Hutchinson.\u00a0 Approximately 30 minutes after my arrival, I had met up with Mike Sanders by coincidence just beyond the tennis courts.\u00a0 After Mike and I canvassed much of this immediate area and coming up empty, we opted to seek out the Red-naped Sapsucker and headed toward Shelter 3.\u00a0 We found much activity at the backend of Shelter 3 at the roadside where the creek meets the roadway.<\/p>\n

Within 20 minutes, Mike Sanders had indicated he may have gotten a glimpse of the Blackburnian Warber through his binoculars.\u00a0 We tracked its activity to the Sycamore tree at the creek and roadside behind Shelter 3.\u00a0 Its foraging activities as we both observed were a bit unique as compared to the Yellow-rumped Warblers nearby which forage well into the center of each tree.\u00a0 This Blackburnian Warbler had a tendency to only feed on the outer branches which served to our benefit. \u00a0 I was fortunate enough to capture several photos despite its small size and well camouflaged plumage against the fall foliage as it ducked in and out of view on the branch limbs.\u00a0 This is the same Blackburnian Warbler as first found by Jeff Bray approximately one week ago.\u00a0 Thanks to Tom-Ford Hutchinson for doing the comparison.\u00a0 Comments are welcome – thanks for visiting.<\/p>\n

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\nBlackburnian Warbler on Sycamore tree behind Shelter 3<\/div>\n
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\nBlackburnian Warbler foraging behind Shelter 3 at Laguna Niguel Regional Park<\/div>\n
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\nBlackburnian Warbler scouts the outer branches of a Sycamore tree<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today at around 4pm, I had arrived at Laguna Niguel Regional Park in south Orange County, California in hopes for another attempt at finding the Blackburnian Warbler first seen by Jeff Bray approximately one week ago.\u00a0 Recently, additional reports surfaced … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oc-birding-locales","category-perching-birds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-go","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}