{"id":2543,"date":"2017-04-13T22:53:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T05:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:17:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:17:40","slug":"bell-view-trail-east-lazuli-bunting-and-a-late-merlin-april-13-2017-rancho-santa-margarita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=2543","title":{"rendered":"Bell View Trail East – Lazuli Bunting and a late Merlin April 13 in Rancho Santa Margarita"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today while canvassing the Bell View trail East and hiking a total distance of approximately 4 miles, I was able to relocate the Lazuli Bunting originally seen on 3\/25\/17 in the same location.\u00a0 The GPS coordinates are:\u00a0 33.64221,-117.55877 and the time frame was 4pm.\u00a0 At another location on the Bell View Trail was an unexpected Merlin this appears to be a female based on the rear backside plumage.\u00a0 The GPS coordinates were: 33\u00b039’28” N 117\u00b033’31” W<\/p>\n

In addition there were 3 Cactus Wrens off the Robinson Ranch Road entrance just past the first turn on the right and an abundance of wild flowers<\/p>\n

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Male Lazuli Bunting – Photo taken on the Bell View Trail (NE) in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA on April 13, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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A Merlin – eBird shows rare for this time of year (just past the cutoff). Photo taken on the Bell View Trail (NE) in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA on April 13, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Indian Paintbrush – Photo taken on the Bell View Trail (NE) in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA on April 13, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Deer Weed – Photo taken on the Bell View Trail (NE) in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA on April 13, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo taken on the Bell View Trail (NE) in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA on April 13, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo taken on the Bell View Trail (NE) in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA on April 13, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo taken on the Bell View Trail (NE) in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA on April 13, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today while canvassing the Bell View trail East and hiking a total distance of approximately 4 miles, I was able to relocate the Lazuli Bunting originally seen on 3\/25\/17 in the same location.\u00a0 The GPS coordinates are:\u00a0 33.64221,-117.55877 and 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2543","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-F1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543","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=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}