{"id":2110,"date":"2012-05-23T12:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2012-05-23T12:47:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T16:47:44","slug":"call-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/2012\/05\/call-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Call &#038; Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bird calling\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MB900155539.jpg\" title=\"bird-calling\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/>Many birds play a little call &#038; response game.  A chickadee in the maple will call &#8220;chicka-dee-dee-dee&#8221; and one in the pine will respond in kind.  Barred owls often ask, &#8220;who cooks for you?&#8221; only to hear the reply, &#8220;who cooks for y&#8217;all?&#8221;  (By the way, did you know that you can often tell male from female barred owls by their calls?  The last note of a female barred owl is often quite the trill, while the male is generally a clear note.)<\/p>\n<p>I did get some responses to my &#8220;It&#8217;s Your Call&#8221; challenge, and as promised, and printing the winner here.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Bill Penoyer for his winning submission!<\/p>\n<p><em>Nature&#8217;s center, centered within each of us<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I like the way Bill brought the broader concept of nature back into the personal level.  He wins one of our hand crafted bat houses for his efforts.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hoping that the installation of bat houses will help get our region&#8217;s little brown bats back on the rise from white nose fungus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more about bats, check out programs at the Nature Center, or watch your local library; Reann will be traveling to area libraries this summer with some &#8220;batty&#8221; info.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many birds play a little call &#038; response game. A chickadee in the maple will call &#8220;chicka-dee-dee-dee&#8221; and one in the pine will respond in kind. Barred owls often ask, &#8220;who cooks for you?&#8221; only to hear the reply, &#8220;who cooks for y&#8217;all?&#8221; (By&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16],"tags":[123,210,17],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-birds","tag-bat","tag-birds","tag-birdsong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}