{"id":2123,"date":"2015-08-02T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T20:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2015-08-02T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T20:09:45","slug":"bolsa-chica-wetlands-saturday-august-1-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Bolsa Chica Wetlands – Saturday, August 1, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mid-afternoon visit to Bolsa Chica Wetlands in search of the recently seen Yellow-crowned Night-Heron turned up fruitless.\u00a0 Mike Sanders and I covered quite a bit of ground, a total of 4.4 miles without success.\u00a0 However a visit to Bolsa Chica will never disappoint bird lovers.\u00a0 We generated a head count of 42 species and 2 taxa during our adventure.\u00a0 The Savannah Sparrows seemed ubiquitous with many juveniles foraging along the pathways in the late afternoon.\u00a0 Black Skimmers were seen most everywhere and the calls of the Elegant Tern at times were almost deafening.\u00a0 As we concluded our journey at the entrance of the walk bridge the Ridgway’s Rail was found hidden low and barely visible.\u00a0 A second Ridgway’s Rail appeared shortly thereafter within close proximity.\u00a0 Several photos of today’s journey can be found below.\u00a0 A complete checklist for this adventure at Bolsa Chica can be found on this eBird checklist for August 1, 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA on August 1, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ridgway’s Rail (formerly Clapper Rail)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA on August 1, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Semipalmated Plover<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA on August 1, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elegant Tern in flight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA on August 1, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Long-billed Curlew<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA on August 1, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marbled Godwit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA on August 1, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Western Sandpiper<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo taken at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, CA on August 1, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Black Skimmer in flight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A mid-afternoon visit to Bolsa Chica Wetlands in search of the recently seen Yellow-crowned Night-Heron turned up fruitless.\u00a0 Mike Sanders and I covered quite a bit of ground, a total of 4.4 miles without success.\u00a0 However a visit to Bolsa … 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oc-birding-locales","category-cranes-rails","category-plovers-sandpipers-allies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-yf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","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=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}