{"id":2479,"date":"2017-02-18T20:07:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T03:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:28:36","slug":"green-tailed-towhee-lake-forest-at-rancho-serrano-park-on-february-18-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=2479","title":{"rendered":"Green-tailed Towhee – Lake Forest at Rancho Serrano Park on February 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

An eBird report was released earlier in the morning by Jeff Bray and Bruce Aird.\u00a0 They had located a Green-tailed Towhee (rare for Orange County) in Lake Forest.\u00a0 Mike Sanders and I opted to pay a visit while dodging the rain as it continued on and off throughout the afternoon at around 1:45pm.\u00a0 We ultimately found the Green-tailed Towhee at approximately 2:15pm at the same location found earlier in the day just as you drive into the park at the Spectrum Pointe Drive entrance.\u00a0 If you opt to head over to this location, your best bet is just look near the white colored small shed at this entrance.\u00a0 If unfamiliar with Towhees, look on the ground on either side of the wall.\u00a0 This is not to say the species won’t fly upward into a tree.\u00a0 We also noted the Green-tailed Towhee foraging afterward as you drive into the park on the north end.\u00a0 It was foraging below the tubular shaped fence line.\u00a0 Look for its reddish colored crown, white beard and bright yellow green tinging on its wings.<\/p>\n

Here’s 4 images from today’s findings:<\/p>\n

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Photo taken at Rancho Serrano Park, Lake Forest, CA on February 18, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo taken at Rancho Serrano Park, Lake Forest, CA on February 18, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo taken at Rancho Serrano Park, Lake Forest, CA on February 18, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo taken at Rancho Serrano Park, Lake Forest, CA on February 18, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An eBird report was released earlier in the morning by Jeff Bray and Bruce Aird.\u00a0 They had located a Green-tailed Towhee (rare for Orange County) in Lake Forest.\u00a0 Mike Sanders and I opted to pay a visit while dodging the … 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":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oc-birding-locales","category-perching-birds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-DZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","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=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}