{"id":1485,"date":"2015-10-11T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:00:01","slug":"beaver-october-11-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/beaver-october-11-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Beaver, October 11, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1486\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beaver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1486\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beaver-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Beaver\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beaver-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beaver-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/beaver.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beaver (<em>click to see the larger version<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The best bird this morning wasn&#8217;t even a bird but a Beaver. I saw this one swimming south in Lake Michigan, hugging the fishing pier. I&#8217;m always surprised how big Beavers are when I see them in the wild; I&#8217;d say this one was 2.5 feet long and maybe 40 pounds. There really isn&#8217;t any suitable Beaver habitat at Montrose so I think most pass through and don&#8217;t stay long, though there is evidence in the form of chewed branches that they use the Dunes.<\/p>\n<p>To see a short video of the Beaver on YouTube, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HTVXzrn_OPo\">this<\/a> link. For more on Beavers in general, take a look at this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beaver\">Wikipedia<\/a> article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best bird this morning wasn&#8217;t even a bird but a Beaver. I saw this one swimming south in Lake Michigan, hugging the fishing pier. I&#8217;m always surprised how big Beavers are when I see them in the wild; I&#8217;d say this one was 2.5 feet long and maybe 40 pounds. There really isn&#8217;t any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[177,35,155],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-wildlife","tag-beaver","tag-lake-michigan","tag-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","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=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/2661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}