{"id":1309,"date":"2014-12-07T16:58:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T22:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2019-03-22T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T19:28:46","slug":"december-7-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/december-7-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"December 7, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1310\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/red-tailed-hawk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1310\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Red-tailed Hawk\" title=\"Red-tailed Hawk\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1310\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/red-tailed-hawk-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/red-tailed-hawk.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-tailed Hawk (<i>click to see the larger version<\/i>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I spent about an hour at Montrose this morning, December 7. The birds and birding feel mostly like winter, which means I didn&#8217;t have a lot of variety, but the morning wasn&#8217;t a total loss. I didn&#8217;t see the Snowy Owl, and it wasn&#8217;t seen yesterday, so perhaps it has moved on. I suspect there will be a few more this winter, judging from the numbers to the north of us. The large raptor highlight was the continuing juvenile Red-tailed Hawk, which was dining on a rabbit near the Magic Hedge. This bird has been around for about a month and has no doubt made significant progress in reducing the rabbit population at Montrose. I also saw a young Great Black-backed Gull flying around the fishing pier, a male Red-bellied Woodpecker, and a heard only Snow Bunting. There were birds inside the harbor too, including a lone lingering Horned Grebe, a handful of Greater and Lesser Scaup, and what looks like a young male Ring-necked Duck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent about an hour at Montrose this morning, December 7. The birds and birding feel mostly like winter, which means I didn&#8217;t have a lot of variety, but the morning wasn&#8217;t a total loss. I didn&#8217;t see the Snowy Owl, and it wasn&#8217;t seen yesterday, so perhaps it has moved on. I suspect there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[72,105,145,164],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-great-black-backed-gull","tag-gulls","tag-longspurs","tag-snow-bunting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2679,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/2679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}