{"id":1447,"date":"2015-04-26T06:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T11:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2019-03-22T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T18:38:26","slug":"bonapartes-gulls-april-25-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/bonapartes-gulls-april-25-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonaparte&#8217;s Gulls, April 25, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of activity on the lake at Montrose this morning, April 25, including good numbers of Caspian Terns, Double-crested Cormorants, and Red-breasted Mergansers. More exciting were the Bonaparte&#8217;s Gulls. In about 45 minutes I estimate I had about 200 moving north past the point, and I only stopped looking when the rain started coming down in earnest. Bonaparte&#8217;s Gulls have become rare at Montrose in the spring, so seeing this many was a pleasant surprise. I also had a single Common Loon and White-winged Scoter and flocks of Lesser Scaup. Migrant landbirds were scarce, as would be expected with northeast winds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a lot of activity on the lake at Montrose this morning, April 25, including good numbers of Caspian Terns, Double-crested Cormorants, and Red-breasted Mergansers. More exciting were the Bonaparte&#8217;s Gulls. In about 45 minutes I estimate I had about 200 moving north past the point, and I only stopped looking when the rain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[174,179,130,105,131,180,116,31],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-bonapartes-gull","tag-caspian-tern","tag-common-loon","tag-gulls","tag-loons","tag-terns","tag-waterfowl","tag-white-winged-scoter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","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=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}