{"id":7444,"date":"2017-04-24T22:41:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:41:04","slug":"birds-at-westerly-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/24\/birds-at-westerly-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds At Westerly Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Angela’s birding group headed out to Westerly Creek. After hearing about the birds, I decided to pay a visit on Sunday. Maybe I would get to some of the same species? And get some practice making some images. I heard that Avocets were present along the creek. What luck! They were the first birds I noticed, at the edge of one of the ponds.<\/p>\n

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Avocet, Westerly Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

They were a mating pair of Avocets. This was only the second time that I had seen these beautiful birds. I was pleased make some images of the pair.<\/p>\n

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Avocet Pair, Westerly Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is another image of the pair.<\/p>\n

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Avocet Pair No 2, Westerly Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

Moving around the pond, I found this little guy. After much discussion, we identified this bird as a Western Wood Pewee.<\/p>\n

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Western Wood Pewee, Westerly Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

There were two Swainson’s Hawks along the creek. I made this image of one before it flew off.<\/p>\n

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Swainson’s Hawk, Westerly Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

Red-Winged Blackbirds were calling all along the creek. I captured this male in mid-call.<\/p>\n

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Red-Winged Blackbird, Westerly Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

Cinnamon Teal were pairing up in the creek. I made this image of the male.<\/p>\n

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Cinnamon Teal Male, Westerly Creek<\/p><\/div>\n

I was pleased to see all these species, and fortunate to get some practice making some decent images of some of the birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, Angela’s birding group headed out to Westerly Creek. After hearing about the birds, I decided to pay a visit on Sunday. Maybe I would get to some of the same species? And get some practice making some images. I heard that Avocets were present along the creek. What luck! They were the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1371,507,1372,1374,1373,1370],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-avocet","tag-blackbird","tag-cinnamon-teal","tag-pewee","tag-swainsons-hawk","tag-westerly-creek"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t