{"id":2175,"date":"2018-02-25T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2019-03-21T17:38:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T22:38:40","slug":"cackling-geese-white-winged-scoters-and-great-black-backed-gull-february-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/cackling-geese-white-winged-scoters-and-great-black-backed-gull-february-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Cackling Geese, White-winged Scoters, and Great Black-backed Gull, February 24, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple hours at Montrose today, February 24. It was a cold morning and the east winds off Lake Michigan made it feel even chillier. I ended up with 23 species for my effort, not particularly impressive, but I did have a few bona fide spring migrants.  My highlights include<\/p>\n<p>Cackling Geese &#8211; 4 flying north with a group of Canada Geese<br \/>\nWhite-winged Scoters &#8211; 2, 1 in the harbor and the other near the end of the fishing pier<br \/>\nNorthern Pintail &#8211; 6 flying north over the lake<br \/>\nGadwall &#8211; 3 with the pintails<br \/>\nGreat Black-backed Gull &#8211; 1 first\/second cycle bird at the beach<\/p>\n<p>The fishing pier is now ice-free and the massive ice shelves on the beach have disappeared. Our local wintering Snowy Owl is probably not too thrilled about this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S43135900\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S43135900<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple hours at Montrose today, February 24. It was a cold morning and the east winds off Lake Michigan made it feel even chillier. I ended up with 23 species for my effort, not particularly impressive, but I did have a few bona fide spring migrants. My highlights include Cackling Geese &#8211; [&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":[132,72,105,116,31],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-cackling-goose","tag-great-black-backed-gull","tag-gulls","tag-waterfowl","tag-white-winged-scoter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","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=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2551,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}