{"id":2636,"date":"2013-03-23T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2013-03-24T20:54:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T00:54:27","slug":"birds-on-the-move-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/2013\/03\/birds-on-the-move-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds On The Move Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hereby declare today Birds On The Move Day. \u00a0I just (4:00PM) went out with my dog to get the mail, and was extremely fortunate.<\/p>\n

\"red-winged There in the trees at the bottom of my driveway was a small flock – I’d guess about 20 individuals, both male & female – of Red-winged Blackbirds<\/a>. \u00a0Personally, I’ve never seen more than a few of these lovelies at a time. \u00a0These birds, so much more than the robin for me, are signs that spring is really here. \u00a0Yes, it’s still cold, windy & snowy at my house, but the Red-winged Blackbirds give\u00a0me hope.<\/p>\n

\"northern<\/p>\n

Just 50 our so yards down the road I finally caught sight of two Northern Flickers<\/a>. \u00a0These woodpeckers have been in my neck of the woods with their familiar call – which sounds to me like qwer, qwer<\/em> – \u00a0for well over a week, but today was the first day they let me actually see them.
\n\"American<\/p>\n

As planned, I walked only about 1\/4 mile and turned around. \u00a0When I got back to the bottom of my driveway, there in the trees where the Red-winged Blackbirds had been, was a similar number of American Robins<\/a>. \u00a0These weren’t the first Robins I’ve seen this year, but it was the most in one place. \u00a0I turned up the driveway and there in the dogwood brush was another at least 20 Robins. \u00a0That’s a lot of Robins in one place!<\/p>\n

So I don’t care what anyone else thinks, for me today is Birds On The Move Day!<\/p>\n

I’ve used images from the Cornell Ornithology lab & linked to their website. \u00a0Go there to learn tons about these and thousands of other birds.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hereby declare today Birds On The Move Day. \u00a0I just (4:00PM) went out with my dog to get the mail, and was extremely fortunate. There in the trees at the bottom of my driveway was a small flock – I’d guess about 20…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[210,190,18,188,189,7],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-birds","tag-flicker","tag-migration","tag-red-winged-blackbird","tag-robin","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","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=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}