{"id":1001079,"date":"2008-04-07T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T02:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/04\/07\/one-thing-i-like-about-irvine\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T21:07:57","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T02:07:57","slug":"one-thing-i-like-about-irvine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/04\/07\/one-thing-i-like-about-irvine\/","title":{"rendered":"One Thing I Like About Irvine"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s definitely nice being in a new location this year where I can see almost 50 species in under two hours on a casual stroll after work in early April. Where I come from back in Brooklyn, that would take quite a bit longer, 50 isn’t really possible this time of year. I can’t imagine what migration will be like out here.<\/p>\n

Thursday I added three species to my walking BGBY<\/acronym> list<\/a>: Clark’s Grebe, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, and Caspian Tern. I find that if I visit each site about once a week, I’m virtually guaranteed to add something new. Daily visits don’t always turn up new birds though. It helps that there are about 4 distinct habitats within easy walking distance of me: urban park, freshwater marsh, canyon scrub, and coastal inlet. <\/p>\n

Friday I wasn’t even explicitly birding. I just ran out into Mason Park to grab a few quick insect photos<\/a> to try a new camera, and I still added one more bird for the year: Ash-throated Flycatcher.
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My year BGBY total is now at 89 species, or 87 if you don’t count Egyptian Goose and Swan Goose. Then again, I don’t have Rock Pigeon and House Sparrow yet, and they have to be around here somewhere. :-) <\/p>\n

The weekend I spent further away from home, so I didn’t add any BGBY<\/acronym> species. However I did get 4 life birds<\/strong> at three locations. More on that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s definitely nice being in a new location this year where I can see almost 50 species in under two hours on a casual stroll after work in early April. Where I come from back in Brooklyn, that would take quite a bit longer, 50 isn’t really possible this time of year. I can’t imagine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1001079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}