{"id":1002549,"date":"2009-08-21T20:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T01:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002549"},"modified":"2009-08-21T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T01:28:25","slug":"orange-bishop-not-474","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2009\/08\/21\/orange-bishop-not-474\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Bishop &#8211; Not #474"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not countable and thus not life bird #474 but I did want to see one before I left Southern California, and after asking a few local experts on OrangeCountyBirding, it turned out there was a population only about 10 miles away in the Santa Ana &#8220;River&#8221;, so I drove over to Huntington Beach this morning before work, walked up the levee, and in less than half a kilometer heard its metallic song. It took a few minutes to actually see it, but when I did it was unmistakeable:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jpg1\" alt=\"Bright orange bird; thick bill; black wings, forehead, and cap\" title=\"_\" width=\"812\" height=\"599\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1002550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jpg1 812w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jpg1-150x110.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As this photo proves, I still need a good, longer bird lens with a tele-extender. Now where are the Pin-tailed Whydahs? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not countable and thus not life bird #474 but I did want to see one before I left Southern California, and after asking a few local experts on OrangeCountyBirding, it turned out there was a population only about 10 miles away in the Santa Ana &#8220;River&#8221;, so I drove over to Huntington Beach this morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,156,153,154,152,155],"class_list":["post-1002549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-birding","tag-cage-birds","tag-exotics","tag-invasive-species","tag-life-list","tag-songbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002549","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=1002549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002554,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002549\/revisions\/1002554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}