{"id":1957,"date":"2016-12-21T20:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2019-03-22T08:59:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:59:48","slug":"december-21-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/december-21-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"December 21, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1958\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/northern-harrier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1958\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/northern-harrier-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Harrier\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1958\" srcset=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/northern-harrier-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/northern-harrier-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/northern-harrier-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/northern-harrier-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/northern-harrier.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Harrier (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I spent about an hour and a half at Montrose this morning, December 21. It certainly looked and felt like winter, with a thin layer of ice on Lake Michigan all the way to the horizon. As expected for this time of year, diversity was low. I ended up with 25 species, highlighted by a nice adult male Northern Harrier, the continuing female Rusty Blackbird, and hundreds of Common Mergansers. When I think of an emblematic Lake Michigan winter bird, I think of the Common Merganser, a hardy duck that can survive our brutal winters with just a little open water to find fish to eat. Link to my eBird checklist below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S33128914\">http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist\/S33128914<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent about an hour and a half at Montrose this morning, December 21. It certainly looked and felt like winter, with a thin layer of ice on Lake Michigan all the way to the horizon. As expected for this time of year, diversity was low. I ended up with 25 species, highlighted by a [&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":[125,93],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-icterids","tag-rusty-blackbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","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=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}