{"id":33689,"date":"2013-02-18T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=68fc467dd399a3d16b788886792ece59"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:40:38","slug":"joe-overstreet-and-e-lake-toho-292013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/joe-overstreet-and-e-lake-toho-292013\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Overstreet and E. Lake Toho, 2\/9\/2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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Long-billed Curlew<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

It’s always fun when you get two lifers in two days. Yesterday a Lincoln’s Sparrowand this morning a Long-billed Curlew. I drove down to the Joe Overstreet Landing and had a great time there. The Curlew was very cooperative and easily found. It was hanging out with numerous Wilson’s Snipe. Then I found a Crested Caracara perched on a fence post, and it took off when I was focused on it, so I had sharp photos. Eastern Meadowlarks were very vocal on the drive into the landing, and I love hearing their calls. Occasionally one would pose on the fence for me. And on a sad but fascinating note, I found a couple Turkey Vultures that were working on a Raccoon carcass by the road.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Long-billed Curlew<\/p>\n

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Wilson’s Snipe<\/p>\n

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Crested Caracara<\/p>\n

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Crested Caracara<\/p>\n

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Eastern Meadowlark<\/p>\n

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Eastern Meadowlark (I normally don’t photograph birds with with lighting like this, but this one had such an iconic pose, I had to try it)<\/p>\n

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Turkey Vultures<\/p>\n

I was hoping to see a Snail Kite there too, but no luck there, so I drove up to East Lake Toho on my way home. There’s a park that runs along the southern portion of the lake (eBird calls it Kaliga Park but I haven’t seen a sign there), and Snail Kites seem to be very reliable there. In fact, I’ve seen one every time I’ve gone there. I found three there, and two were activelypatrollingthe marshes in front of me looking for Apple Snails. I saw one grab one, but I couldn’t get photos of it with its prize.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Snail Kite<\/p>\n

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Snail Kite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s always fun when you get two lifers in two days. Yesterday a Lincoln’s Sparrowand this morning a Long-billed Curlew. I drove down to the Joe Overstreet Landing and had a great time there. The Curlew was very cooperative and easily found. It was hanging out with numerous Wilson’s Snipe. Then I found a Crested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2145901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2101,3237,3234,3236,3189,2465,3235,229,704],"class_list":["post-33689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-crested-caracara","tag-east-lake-toho","tag-eastern-meadowlark","tag-joe-overstreet","tag-long-billed-curlew","tag-scott-simmons","tag-snail-kite","tag-turkey-vulture","tag-wilsons-snipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33689","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=33689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}