{"id":1001211,"date":"2008-05-31T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001211"},"modified":"2008-05-31T17:45:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T22:45:02","slug":"419-red-necked-phalarope-in-two-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2008\/05\/31\/419-red-necked-phalarope-in-two-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"#419 Red-necked Phalarope in Two Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of those tricky lifers. You&#8217;re not quite sure when you saw it first because you&#8217;re not quite sure about the first sighting. I think my first Red-necked Phalarope was at San Joaquin Wildlife Refuge on April 27. However those birds weren&#8217;t in breeding plumage, and I didn&#8217;t have a scope. I can&#8217;t say with absolute certainty that they weren&#8217;t Wilson&#8217;s Phalaropes (though I do think they matched Red-necked much more closely.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/phalarope.jpg\" alt=\"Phalarope at San Joaquin, Pond A\" title=\"Phalarope at San Joaquin, Pond A\" width=\"462\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1001212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/phalarope.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/phalarope-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately just  a few days later I was in Santa Clara County on business, and as I like to do I went to Mountain View Shoreline before work. Usually I start out at the end of San Antonio road and walk around the lake. However, today I decided to take a different route and explore the area to the north along the 101. About halfway to the next exit, I found some ponds, and in one of them a flock of about 20 Red-necked Phalaropes were feeding. This time most of them were in full breeding plumage so even without a scope there was no doubt. I even got some recognizable pictures:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/red-necked-phalaropes.jpg\" alt=\"6 Red-necked Phalaropes feeding in water\" title=\"red-necked-phalaropes\" width=\"540\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1001213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/red-necked-phalaropes.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/red-necked-phalaropes-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Total species count for that morning was 28:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>  \tCanada Goose  \t<\/li>\n<li> \tGadwall \t<\/li>\n<li> \tMallard \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCinnamon Teal \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Shoveler \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRuddy Duck \t<\/li>\n<li> \tPied-billed Grebe \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican White Pelican \t<\/li>\n<li> \tDouble-crested Cormorant \t<\/li>\n<li> \tSnowy Egret \t<\/li>\n<li> \tWhite-tailed Kite \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCommon Moorhen \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Coot \t<\/li>\n<li> \tKilldeer \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBlack-necked Stilt \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Avocet \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-necked Phalarope \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRing-billed Gull \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCalifornia Gull \t<\/li>\n<li> \tForster&#8217;s Tern \t<\/li>\n<li> \tAmerican Crow \t<\/li>\n<li> \tMarsh Wren \t<\/li>\n<li> \tNorthern Mockingbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tCommon Yellowthroat \t<\/li>\n<li> \tRed-winged Blackbird \t<\/li>\n<li> \tBullock&#8217;s Oriole \t<\/li>\n<li> \tHouse Finch \t<\/li>\n<li> \tLesser Goldfinch \t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I saw still more Phalaropes the next weekend back in Orange County, but that will have to wait for the next entry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one of those tricky lifers. You&#8217;re not quite sure when you saw it first because you&#8217;re not quite sure about the first sighting. I think my first Red-necked Phalarope was at San Joaquin Wildlife Refuge on April 27. However those birds weren&#8217;t in breeding plumage, and I didn&#8217;t have a scope. I can&#8217;t [&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-1001211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001211","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=1001211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}