{"id":172415,"date":"2015-07-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=8c76c56b1b748d187674604febc6c8fb"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:56:07","slug":"little-big-econ-sf-brumley-rd-trailhead-7152015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/little-big-econ-sf-brumley-rd-trailhead-7152015\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Big Econ SF (Brumley Rd Trailhead), 7\/15\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I made the long trek out to the St. John’s River at Puzzle Lake from Brumley Rd. I’m always impressed with place when I go.<\/p>\n

I was hoping for returning shorebirds, and I didn’t get anything new for the year, but it was nice to see returning Greater Yellowlegs and Least Sandpipers, hopefully as a sign of other species to come over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n

Killdeer and Black-necked Stilts are stilt there, of course, and it was exciting to see some little chicks running about.<\/p>\n

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Black-necked Stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Black-necked Stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Least Sandpiper (one of about 10 I saw)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I added four new birds to the eBird hotspot: Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Wood Duck, Swallow-tailed Kite and Yellow-billed Cuckoo, and I added Ruby-throated Hummingbird to my own list for the hotspot. In all I saw 47 species–here’s my eBird checklist.<\/p>\n

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Red-shouldered Hawk (immature)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was also fun to see this Sabatia flower, which I’m pretty sure is a Large Flower Sabatia. I’ve photographed Saltmarsh Sabatia here before (Rose of Plymouth), but this flower was significantly larger than a quarter, and I don’t think the flower petals of Rose of Plymouth are supposed to get larger than a quarter.<\/p>\n

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Large Flower Sabatia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also photographed a Robber Fly, which I believe is a Red-footed Cannibalfly. I photographed another a few days ago at the Jones East Trailhead to this same forest.<\/p>\n

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Red-footed Cannibalfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yesterday I made the long trek out to the St. John’s River at Puzzle Lake from Brumley Rd. I’m always impressed with place when I go. I was hoping for returning shorebirds, and I didn’t get anything new for the year, but it was nice to see returning Greater Yellowlegs and Least Sandpipers, hopefully as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2196137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/07-15\/i-rJX3Ndh\/0\/L\/_MG_9564-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2465],"class_list":["post-172415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}