{"id":42,"date":"2005-09-07T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2005-09-07T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T20:22:00","slug":"yes-to-wilsons-no-to-laughing-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/yes-to-wilsons-no-to-laughing-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes to Wilson's, No to Laughing Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"

In between an eye exam this afternoon and rollerblading at the Lake Hefner dam, I did a quick trip to a few favorite birding spots along the south side of the lake. I was rewarded with the sight of two very small yellowish warblers and a Ruby-throated Hummingbird sitting in a cottonwood tree along the shore at Prairie Dog Point. The warblers, I believe, are Wilson’s Warblers! I’ve only seen Wilson’s once before and today’s sighting provided a great opportunity to watch them in action. They were very busy and also quite accomodating. I was able to get only a few usable photos, however, since they often ducked behind the cottonwood leaves (which are larger than the birds).<\/p>\n

The fall warbler migration is underway and I’m happy to have seen these very beautiful birds. (And I’ll be relieved when Terri or Nathan confirm my ID.)<\/p>\n

I also visited Stars & Stripes Park on the south side of the lake and for the third time was unable to locate the juvenile Laughing Gull. My last sighting of this bird was 9\/2\/05. I looked for it a few times over the weekend but the Park was full of families enjoying holiday picnics and I wasn’t surprised to find the area absent most birds. But the Ring-billed Gulls and Forster’s Terns have returned, but alas no Laughing Gull. What a great bird — and a great time I had watching my first Laughing Gull.<\/p>\n

My work load is slowing down a bit and I hope to add some photos to the Gallery by the end of the week. I’ll post a list of the updated images just for the record \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Happy birding to all,<\/p>\n

Pat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In between an eye exam this afternoon and rollerblading at the Lake Hefner dam, I did a quick trip to a few favorite birding spots along the south side of the lake. I was rewarded with the sight of two very small yellowish warblers and a Ruby-throated Hummingbird sitting in a cottonwood tree along the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}