{"id":1372,"date":"2014-11-09T22:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:49:51","slug":"oso-reservoir-november-9-2014-wilsons-snipe-plus-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1372","title":{"rendered":"Oso Reservoir – November 9, 2014 – Wilson’s Snipe plus others"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a mundane start at around 3pm and seeing nothing but Yellow-rumped Warblers and White-crowned Sparrows, things began to get a bit more exiciting once Mike and I ventured toward the reservoir.\u00a0 Today we opted to scour the back end of the camp as to try a different location which proved a bit fruitless with respect to uncommon or even a rare sighting.<\/p>\n

As we walked back toward the boating area we located two Northern red-shafted Flickers followed by a Sharp-shinned Hawk.\u00a0 We eventually reached the perimeter of the reservoir at approximately 4 pm near the boating area and noted quite a few Great-tailed Grackles up on the rocks, several Savannah Sparrows to the right of the boat launch and absent this time around were the Lincoln Sparrows.\u00a0 Also of note was the water appeared to be at a higher level and the sand bar was absent from view (submerged).\u00a0 While canvassing near the water’s perimeter a muted rapid call was heard as a dark, swift long-billed shore bird flew in front of us about a foot or so above land.\u00a0 We ultimately tracked this bird down (though difficult to find) despite the fact we saw precisely where it landed.\u00a0 Mike’s initial instinct was a Wilson’s Snipe and right he was.\u00a0 The one and only photo of the Wilson’s Snipe is shown below.\u00a0 In this immediate area we also spotted a Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) note the whitish colored throat and a Peregrine Falcon soaring in mid air.\u00a0 Sadly photos of the falcon were not possible with direct sunlight blocking any photo ops of this bird.<\/p>\n

eBird checklist<\/a> for 11-9-2014 and photos of the Wilson’s Snipe and a few other species are below.<\/p>\n

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\"Wilson's<\/a>
\nWilson’s Snipe – Oso Reservoir 11-9-14<\/div>\n
\"Yellow-rumped<\/a>
\nYellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s) note yellow throat<\/div>\n
\"Photo<\/a>
\nYellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) note white throat<\/div>\n
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\"Yellow-rumped<\/a>
\nYellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) Rear View<\/div>\n
\"Savannah<\/a>
\nSavannah Sparrow near the boat launching area<\/div>\n
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After a mundane start at around 3pm and seeing nothing but Yellow-rumped Warblers and White-crowned Sparrows, things began to get a bit more exiciting once Mike and I ventured toward the reservoir.\u00a0 Today we opted to scour the back end … 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oc-birding-locales"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-m8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","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=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}