{"id":1001188,"date":"2008-05-26T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001188"},"modified":"2008-05-26T19:50:50","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T00:50:50","slug":"bolsa-chica-shorebird-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/05\/26\/bolsa-chica-shorebird-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolsa Chica Shorebird Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These photos were taken at Bolsa Chica today (May 26, 2008), at the first pulloff from <acronym title='Pacific Coast Highway'>PCH<\/acronym>, where the boardwalk is. This was looking away from the ocean just past where the bench is that overlooks the tern colony (at a different time of year). I&#8217;m pretty sure the bird with lots of rufous on its chest is a Red Knot. What are the others? Red Knots? Dunlins? Curlew Sandpipers? Ruffs? Something else? There may be more than one species present.<\/p>\n<p>The photos you see on this page are reduced in size. Click on each photo to see it at full resolution. 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This was looking away from the ocean just past where the bench is that overlooks the tern colony (at a different time of year). I&#8217;m pretty sure the bird with lots of rufous on [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1001188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001188","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=1001188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}