{"id":331,"date":"2012-10-06T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-10-06T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:47:23","slug":"california-september-9-17-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"California! September 9-17, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and I took a fantastic vacation, beginning in San Francisco and then down at the Monterey Bay Birding Festival, with Bob documenting all our fabulous finds with his camera. Please enjoy ALL the pictures by clicking on this photo of Redwood trees in Muir Woods&#8230;Day 1 begins here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Day 1 - September 9, 2012, Muir Woods. Giant, beautiful Redwood trees\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/116687283366637969462\/California#5795597251578848050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-AHvwOWREYg8\/UG4Y_nGWYzI\/AAAAAAAAPV8\/gA6isOEwXOw\/IMG_1862.jpg?imgmax=512\" alt=\"Day 1 - September 9, 2012, Muir Woods. Giant, beautiful Redwood trees\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a teaser of just some of the amazing birds we saw:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"And another awesome Long-billed Curlew\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/116687283366637969462\/California#5795602154941278562\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-3_kXOvO-F00\/UG4ddBjDaWI\/AAAAAAAAPa8\/YlylNEHiHwU\/IMG_2466.jpg?imgmax=288\" alt=\"And another awesome Long-billed Curlew\" width=\"288\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><a title=\"One of my most-wanted birds: Lifer Black-footed Albatross! We saw 11 of these birds on this trip!\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/116687283366637969462\/California#5795999122724962210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-lLXSNq_9gxs\/UG-Gflx_P6I\/AAAAAAAAPmo\/s7WAwAxtZTs\/IMG_3018.jpg?imgmax=288\" alt=\"One of my most-wanted birds: Lifer Black-footed Albatross! We saw 11 of these birds on this trip!\" width=\"288\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><a title=\"MY MOST-WANTED CA BIRD: Yellow-billed Magpie!!!\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/116687283366637969462\/California#5795997414110846498\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-naAPLHbPCYA\/UG-E8Iso3iI\/AAAAAAAAPkQ\/TzNC5Pm9pHA\/IMG_3320.jpg?imgmax=400\" alt=\"MY MOST-WANTED CA BIRD: Yellow-billed Magpie!!!\" width=\"400\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Stunning Brown Pelican at rest\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/116687283366637969462\/California#5796011166760158354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-dGrSfVhb9yo\/UG-RcpTvxJI\/AAAAAAAAPwg\/yzmhrfOKXeA\/IMG_3669.jpg?imgmax=288\" alt=\"Stunning Brown Pelican at rest\" width=\"288\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Beautiful Marbled Godwit - these birds were numerous here at Jetty Road at Moss Landing\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/116687283366637969462\/California#5796006926375123266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-JSIjjvWjG2o\/UG-Nl0pK-UI\/AAAAAAAAPu4\/QQr0_H14VCQ\/IMG_3520.jpg?imgmax=288\" alt=\"Beautiful Marbled Godwit - these birds were numerous here at Jetty Road at Moss Landing\" width=\"288\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Whatz up, bitches? White-tailed Kite staring at something in the distance\" href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/116687283366637969462\/California#5795602201142375698\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pie-img\" style=\"margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-P9n1QXHXeQo\/UG4dftqQNRI\/AAAAAAAAPbU\/R5DzT1YiETQ\/IMG_2532.jpg?imgmax=400\" alt=\"Whatz up, bitches? White-tailed Kite staring at something in the distance\" width=\"400\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob and I took a fantastic vacation, beginning in San Francisco and then down at the Monterey Bay Birding Festival, with Bob documenting all our fabulous finds with his camera. Please enjoy ALL the pictures by clicking on this photo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/?p=331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplechickadee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}