{"id":2915,"date":"2019-05-10T08:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T13:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2019-05-12T09:08:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T14:08:01","slug":"may-9-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/may-9-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sweet Season, May 9, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2117\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/common-nighthawk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2117\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/common-nighthawk.jpg\" alt=\"Common Nighthawk\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2117\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Common Nighthawk. Photo by M. Ferguson (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The sweet season has commenced. Days like May 9 make suffering through Chicago winters worth it. I don&#8217;t know if the volume of birds was better than the fantastic weekend of May 4-5 but the variety certainly was. I tallied 95 species in about 3.5 hours of morning birding, my best spring total to date (according to eBird, over 120 species were reported). My highlights include 3 Black-bellied Plovers, Willet, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Common and Forster&#8217;s Terns, a roosting Common Nighthawk, 5 woodpeckers, 19 species of warblers (Pine, Northern Parula, and Blue-winged being the best), and Clay-colored Sparrow. Link to my eBird checklist below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S56042131\">https:\/\/ebird.org\/view\/checklist\/S56042131<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sweet season has commenced. Days like May 9 make suffering through Chicago winters worth it. I don&#8217;t know if the volume of birds was better than the fantastic weekend of May 4-5 but the variety certainly was. I tallied 95 species in about 3.5 hours of morning birding, my best spring total to date [&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":[70,217,250,63,159,194,195,105,101,126,225,148,103,121,180,106,83],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-best-spring-migration-days","tag-black-bellied-plover","tag-blue-winged-warbler","tag-clay-colored-sparrow","tag-common-nighthawk","tag-common-tern","tag-forsters-tern","tag-gulls","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull","tag-nightjars","tag-northern-parula","tag-pine-warbler","tag-shorebirds","tag-sparrows","tag-terns","tag-warblers","tag-willet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}