{"id":1616,"date":"2016-02-08T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T21:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2019-03-22T12:35:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:35:15","slug":"horned-grebe-and-ruddy-ducks-february-8-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/horned-grebe-and-ruddy-ducks-february-8-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Horned Grebe and Ruddy Ducks, February 8, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked around Montrose for a bit this morning, February 8, and I can confirm that it still feels like winter. My most unexpected find was a Horned Grebe in the lake on the beach side of the fishing pier. I&#8217;m guessing this is an overwintering bird instead of an early migrant because of the date.<\/p>\n<p>I also saw the 2 continuing female type Ruddy Ducks in the lake south of the Magic Hedge. They&#8217;re been in the same area for over a week so they must like that spot.<\/p>\n<p>There were also several hundred gulls, mostly Ring-billeds, swarming over the open water at the west end of the harbor. I didn&#8217;t spend a lot of time looking through them so I could have missed something unusual. As I&#8217;ve mentioned in previous posts, some kind of small fish are running in the harbor, which is what&#8217;s attracting the gulls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked around Montrose for a bit this morning, February 8, and I can confirm that it still feels like winter. My most unexpected find was a Horned Grebe in the lake on the beach side of the fishing pier. I&#8217;m guessing this is an overwintering bird instead of an early migrant because of the [&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":[117,165,167,116],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-grebes","tag-horned-grebe","tag-ruddy-duck","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","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=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}