{"id":150461,"date":"2025-07-18T05:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=150461"},"modified":"2025-07-18T05:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:26:27","slug":"spring-spotted-sandpiper-in-breeding-plumage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/07\/18\/spring-spotted-sandpiper-in-breeding-plumage\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Spotted Sandpiper In Breeding Plumage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in May I was delighted to photograph this fluffed-up Spotted Sandpiper in breeding plumage while I was near the water at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"SpottedSpotted Sandpiper in breeding plumage at Sequoyah NWR<\/span><\/p>\n

The very next day at the refuge, I spotted more of these sandpipers on the Arkansas River. I wrote a post about them and shared a few photos: Surfing Spotted Sandpipers On The Arkansas River<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Because I was so excited about seeing and photographing Spotted Sandpipers surfing down the Arkansas River on logs, I forgot I had edited this photo and tucked it away in my folder of images I wanted to share.<\/p>\n

I felt like today was a great day to share this Spotted Sandpiper photo.<\/p>\n

I’m keeping this short. I’ve been tied up with two projects this week and haven’t had much time with my camera in hand, but I’m hoping to fix that soon.<\/p>\n

I need birds and time in nature.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Spotted Sandpiper photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in May I was delighted to photograph this fluffed-up Spotted Sandpiper in breeding plumage while I was near the water at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,13973,13974,504],"tags":[2209,4004,14023,13984,4053,4309,3035,4109,3521,992,274,4188,2407,165,3996],"class_list":["post-150461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-oklahoma","category-sequoyah-national-wildlife-refuge","category-spotted-sandpipers","tag-actitis-macularia","tag-adult","tag-arkansas-river","tag-bottomlands","tag-breeding-plumage","tag-fluffed-up","tag-fluffy","tag-grasses","tag-sandpiper","tag-sandpipers","tag-shorebirds-2","tag-shoreline","tag-spotted-sandpiper","tag-spring","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\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