{"id":5408,"date":"2023-04-19T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2023-04-19T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:01:50","slug":"songbirds-on-the-fishing-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/songbirds-on-the-fishing-pier\/","title":{"rendered":"Songbirds on the Fishing Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2430\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brown-thrasher.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2430\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/brown-thrasher.jpg\" alt=\"Brown Thrasher\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2430\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown Thrasher on the fishing pier (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t look like typical Brown Thrasher habitat. During spring and fall, songbirds will sometimes land on the fishing pier at Montrose early in the morning after a night of migration over Lake Michigan. They don&#8217;t stay long and continue on to the more protected Dunes or Bird Sanctuary after a few minutes. Lingering on the pier can be dangerous for a small bird &ndash; Peregrine Falcons, Merlins, and gulls like an easy breakfast and won&#8217;t hesitate to hunt them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doesn&#8217;t look like typical Brown Thrasher habitat. During spring and fall, songbirds will sometimes land on the fishing pier at Montrose early in the morning after a night of migration over Lake Michigan. They don&#8217;t stay long and continue on to the more protected Dunes or Bird Sanctuary after a few minutes. Lingering on [&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":[337,105,47,213],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-bird-reports","tag-brown-thrasher","tag-gulls","tag-merlin","tag-peregrine-falcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","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=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}