{"id":1610,"date":"2015-01-05T01:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T08:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2015-01-05T02:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:04:49","slug":"january-4-2015-3-park-visits-whiting-ranch-san-juan-creek-mouth-and-treasure-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"January 4, 2015 – 3 park visits: Whiting Ranch, San Juan Creek Mouth and Treasure Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

After viewing a pair of Cactus Wrens late last year, my objective was to return to the same GPS coordinates (33.6820, -117.6426) and see if the pair was at the same location and in fact they were (photo of 2 Cactus Wrens below at Whiting Ranch, Orange County CA). A checklist of this brief journey can be found HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Next on the journey was a visit to the San Juan Creek Mouth and beach at Dana Point Harbor.\u00a0 A very low tide offered good views of a variety of gulls (Western, California, Ring-billed and Heermann’s) in various cycles from 1st through 4th and adult stages.\u00a0 Also see were a pair of Black Oystercatchers, Sanderlings, several Snowy Plovers, 8 Snowy Egrets, Willets, and various other species which can be viewed on the January 4th 2015 eBird checklist.<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, a visit to Treasure Island<\/a> (<ebird checklist) at the Montage Hotel for the Surfbird and Black Turnstone proved fruitless as they were unable to be found between 3:30 and 5pm.\u00a0 At least one more Black Oyster Catcher was visible, and Orange-crowned Warbler and a similar variety of gulls as listed above.<\/p>\n

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\"Cactus<\/a>
Cactus Wrens (21342)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Snowy<\/a>
Snowy Plover (21355)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Heermann's<\/a>
Heermann’s Gull – Second Cycle (21385)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After viewing a pair of Cactus Wrens late last year, my objective was to return to the same GPS coordinates (33.6820, -117.6426) and see if the pair was at the same location and in fact they were (photo of 2 … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","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-pY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}