{"id":613,"date":"2014-07-03T00:19:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2014-07-03T00:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:20:54","slug":"visit-to-oceanside-ca-in-san-diego-county-july-2-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=613","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Oceanside, CA in San Diego County &#8211; July 2, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After speaking with an Audubon Society member in Oceanside, CA a recommendation was Guajome Lake which is off the 76 highway in north San Diego County.\u00a0 The brief visit turned-up two Least Terns in flight.\u00a0 Easily identifiable with the whitish forehead, primaries and tail were same length and the bill more of a solid yellow in comparison to the bill of a Forster&#8217;s Tern (1 reasonably good photo below).\u00a0 Upon scouting around the lake, a Black-crowned Night Heron flew in with its prey, a meaty catfish which initially seemed too large for the hunter himself.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a photo below taken from about 30 yards away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_615\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 485px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IM5D_017571-Least-Tern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-615\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IM5D_017571-Least-Tern-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo taken at Guajome Lake, Oceanside, CA on July 2, 2014\" width=\"485\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IM5D_017571-Least-Tern-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IM5D_017571-Least-Tern.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at Guajome Lake, Oceanside, CA on July 2, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Least Tern in flight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-6\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_614\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 495px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IM5D_017580-Black-crowned-Night-Heron-with-Catfish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-614\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IM5D_017580-Black-crowned-Night-Heron-with-Catfish-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo taken at Guajome Lake, Oceanside, CA on July 2, 2014\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IM5D_017580-Black-crowned-Night-Heron-with-Catfish-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IM5D_017580-Black-crowned-Night-Heron-with-Catfish.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Photo taken at Guajome Lake, Oceanside, CA on July 2, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Black-crowned Night Heron with a meaty catfish<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After speaking with an Audubon Society member in Oceanside, CA a recommendation was Guajome Lake which is off the 76 highway in north San Diego County.\u00a0 The brief visit turned-up two Least Terns in flight.\u00a0 Easily identifiable with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/?p=613\">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":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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Rhss-9T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbirds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}