{"id":4272,"date":"2021-03-08T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2021-03-09T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:28:33","slug":"march-8-2021-sprung-is-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/march-8-2021-sprung-is-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"March 8, 2021 &#8211; Sprung is Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2383\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/turkey-vulture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2383\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2383\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/turkey-vulture.jpg\" width=\"300\" alt=\"Turkey Vulture\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey Vulture. Photo courtesy of Tamima Itani. (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s axiomatic among Chicago lakefront birders that southwest winds in spring produce lots of migrants. Today, March 8, reaffirmed that maxim. I ended up with 42 species in a couple of hours of birding, including a number of new birds for the year. Large numbers of blackbirds and Canada Geese were moving on the south winds, and we had a number of unusual sightings. Best for the morning were<\/p>\n<p>\nGreater White-fronted Geese &#8211; 27<br \/>\nWhite-winged Scoter &#8211; 1<br \/>\nAmerican Woodcock &#8211; 1<br \/>\nTurkey Vulture &#8211; 1<br \/>\nMerlin &#8211; 1<br \/>\nRusty Blackbird &#8211; 2\n<\/p>\n<p>The favorable conditions will continue for at least three more days, so birding should be good at Montrose for most of the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>\n <strong>eBird Checklist<\/strong><br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/ebird.org\/checklist\/S83012268\">March 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s axiomatic among Chicago lakefront birders that southwest winds in spring produce lots of migrants. Today, March 8, reaffirmed that maxim. I ended up with 42 species in a couple of hours of birding, including a number of new birds for the year. Large numbers of blackbirds and Canada Geese were moving on the south [&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":[129,282,187,120,47,93,103,280,116,31],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-american-woodcock","tag-blackbirds","tag-greater-white-fronted-goose","tag-hawks","tag-merlin","tag-rusty-blackbird","tag-shorebirds","tag-turkey-vulture","tag-waterfowl","tag-white-winged-scoter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}