{"id":5584,"date":"2024-02-25T11:59:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T17:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2024-02-26T07:10:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T13:10:50","slug":"eared-grebe-february-25-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/eared-grebe-february-25-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Eared Grebe, February 25, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2353\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eared-grebe3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2353\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2353\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/eared-grebe3.jpg\" alt=\"Eared Grebe\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eared Grebe (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An obliging Eared Grebe was a pleasant surprise on February 25. The bird was inside the &#8220;hook&#8221; of the long fishing pier that extends out into Lake Michigan at the east end of the beach. Two Horned Grebes were nearby but the Eared wasn&#8217;t associating with them. Late winter Eared Grebes are very rare at Montrose &ndash; I&#8217;m struggling to remember if I&#8217;ve ever seen one there at this time of the year. Is this bird an early migrant or did it overwinter on Lake Michigan? Hard to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obliging Eared Grebe was a pleasant surprise on February 25. The bird was inside the &#8220;hook&#8221; of the long fishing pier that extends out into Lake Michigan at the east end of the beach. Two Horned Grebes were nearby but the Eared wasn&#8217;t associating with them. Late winter Eared Grebes are very rare at [&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":[162,117],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-eared-grebe","tag-grebes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","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=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5588,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions\/5588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}