{"id":1534,"date":"2014-12-19T19:58:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T02:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2015-10-03T23:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T06:26:06","slug":"zone-tailed-hawk-and-varied-thrushes-lake-forest-ca-on-december-19-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Zone-tailed Hawk and Varied Thrushes – Lake Forest, CA on December 19, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

While visiting the El Toro Memorial Memorial Park (cemetery) in Lake Forest for a local bird count, I had eventually stumbled upon the Varied Thrushes at the back end of the park around 2:40pm.\u00a0 This was near where the maintenance house is located just in front of the gated area.\u00a0 With their timid and skittish nature, standing still and enduring patience is essential to get better views.\u00a0 I counted a total of 3 as they remained well shaded and camouflaged in the oak trees.\u00a0 For brief moments they would forage at ground level.\u00a0 Any sudden sound of a car, tractor or passerby would send them up into the oaks trees.\u00a0 Brief bursts of flying between oak trees were the commonplace every 5 or 10 minutes.\u00a0 They were undisturbed by the presence of 7 to 8 acorn woodpeckers foraging and inhabiting the same localized area.<\/p>\n

Approximately 10 minutes later I had viewed a lone raptor like bird flying toward my proximity.\u00a0 A closer examination (via binoculars) of the tail confirmed this was a Zone-tailed Hawk.\u00a0 Gray skies and overcast made for poor in flight captures as the subject was back lit.\u00a0 Spot Metering and over exposure of two full stops help greatly though increased the noise within the image.<\/p>\n

Images of the Varied Thrush and Zone-tailed Hawk are below<\/p>\n

Here’s a completed eBird list for today’s sightings – December 19, 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Comments welcomed.<\/p>\n

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Zone-tailed Hawk (20776) in Flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Varied Thrush (IM5D_020756 )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While visiting the El Toro Memorial Memorial Park (cemetery) in Lake Forest for a local bird count, I had eventually stumbled upon the Varied Thrushes at the back end of the park around 2:40pm.\u00a0 This was near where the maintenance … 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":[2,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oc-birding-locales","category-bird-species","category-hawks-kites-eagles-allies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-oK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","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=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}