{"id":1685,"date":"2024-04-29T20:43:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:13:54","slug":"how-an-enthusiastic-new-photographer-made-birding-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/how-an-enthusiastic-new-photographer-made-birding-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How an Enthusiastic New Photographer Made Birding History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feature-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2024\/04\/29\/how-an-enthusiastic-new-photographer-made-birding-history\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1600\" height=\"840\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-card-large size-card-large wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"A split image showing a blue bird on the left standing on sandy ground and on the right standing on a rocky surface, highlighting its vibrant blue and brown plumage in different environments.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/michael-sanchez-blue-rock-thrush-featured.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>41-year-old musician and school band director Michael Sanchez bought his first camera just a month ago. Last week, while trying to get nice sunrise landscape shots at Hug Point along the Oregon coast, Sanchez took photos of a small, dark-looking bird in the dim dawn light. While not initially realizing it, Sanchez had captured some of the only photos ever of a blue rock thrush (Monticola solitarius) in North American history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2024\/04\/29\/how-an-enthusiastic-new-photographer-made-birding-history\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>41-year-old musician and school band director Michael Sanchez bought his first camera just a month ago. Last week, while trying to get<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/how-an-enthusiastic-new-photographer-made-birding-history\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylinereptiles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}