{"id":5567,"date":"2024-01-14T09:28:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2024-01-15T05:53:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T11:53:22","slug":"january-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/january-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"January 13, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2347\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/iceland-gull1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2347\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2347\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/iceland-gull1.jpg\" alt=\"Herring, Ring-billed, and Iceland Gulls\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herring, Ring-billed, and Iceland Gulls (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The middle of January is about the slowest time of the year for birding at Montrose. If you see 20 species on a visit you&#8217;re doing very well. January 13, 2024 proved to be the best mid winter day of birding I&#8217;ve experienced at Montrose. I tallied 32 species in a couple hours of birding, and 41 species were reported to eBird by all observers for the day. My highlights include<\/p>\n<p>\nIceland Gull<br \/>\nLong-tailed Duck<br \/>\nLong-eared Owl<br \/>\nNorthern Harrier<br \/>\nAmerican Pipit<br \/>\nLapland Longspur<br \/>\nSnow Bunting<br \/>\nHorned Lark<br \/>\nOrange-crowned Warbler<br \/>\nCommon Grackle<br \/>\nFox Sparrow<br \/>\nSavannah Sparrow\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome of these birds were likely driven south by an approaching Artic cold front. The temperature on January 13 was in the 20s, but dropped below zero overnight and is expected to stay in this range for several days. Extreme weather events like this often produce extreme birding events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The middle of January is about the slowest time of the year for birding at Montrose. If you see 20 species on a visit you&#8217;re doing very well. January 13, 2024 proved to be the best mid winter day of birding I&#8217;ve experienced at Montrose. I tallied 32 species in a couple hours of birding, [&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":[140,105,120,188,92,143,211,33,145,139,346,57,164,106,116],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-american-pipit","tag-gulls","tag-hawks","tag-horned-lark","tag-iceland-gull","tag-lapland-longspur","tag-long-eared-owl","tag-long-tailed-duck","tag-longspurs","tag-northern-harrier","tag-orange-crowned-warbler","tag-owls","tag-snow-bunting","tag-warblers","tag-waterfowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","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=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}