{"id":1378,"date":"2014-11-17T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:45:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:45:46","slug":"arroyo-trabuco-trail-rancho-santa-margarita-november-15-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"Arroyo Trabuco Trail &#8211; Rancho Santa Margarita November 15, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to Arroyo Trabuco (entrance off Arroyo Vista) in Rancho Santa Margarita produced a reasonably good list in such a short period of time (2 hours).\u00a0 The complete list can be found on <a title=\"November 15, 2014 eBird List\" href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist?subID=S20568040\">eBird.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Highlights of today&#8217;s journey were a Merlin early on in our adventure perched in a Sycamore Tree just off the main trail and on Arroyo Vista (street) and a adult Red-shouldered Hawk (western).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve included a few photos below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019830-Merlin-Taiga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1383\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019830-Merlin-Taiga-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Merlin (Taiga) 19830\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019830-Merlin-Taiga-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019830-Merlin-Taiga.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA Merlin profile shot on the Arroyo Trabuco Trail showing markings on facial side<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019828-Merlin-Taiga-rear-crown-view.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1381\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019828-Merlin-Taiga-rear-crown-view-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Merlin (Taiga) 19828\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019828-Merlin-Taiga-rear-crown-view-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019828-Merlin-Taiga-rear-crown-view.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA Merlin on the Arroyo Trabuco Trail showing markings on nape of neck and rear crown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019825-Merlin-Taiga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1380\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019825-Merlin-Taiga-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Merlin (Taiga) 19825\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019825-Merlin-Taiga-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IM5D_019825-Merlin-Taiga.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA Merlin on the Arroyo Trabuco Trail showing markings on front view<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to Arroyo Trabuco (entrance off Arroyo Vista) in Rancho Santa Margarita produced a reasonably good list in such a short period of time (2 hours).\u00a0 The complete list can be found on eBird. Highlights of today&#8217;s journey were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1378\">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":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oc-birding-locales","category-hawks-kites-eagles-allies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-me","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","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=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}