{"id":10809,"date":"2017-09-12T20:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T03:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T02:25:25","slug":"and-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/12\/and-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"And It Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Denver with seven friends on a <a href=\"http:\/\/linnaeannewyork.org\/\">Linnaean Society<\/a> field trip to the western plains. We&#8217;ll be traveling over the next week to the Wildcat Hills, the Pine Ridge, and the Black Hills in search of residents, migrants, and September vagrants. Can&#8217;t wait to see what these days bring!<\/p>\n<p>We started this afternoon with a quick visit to Barr Lake, a few minutes from our hotel and usually just about the birdiest place around. Mid-afternoon on a ninety-plus-degree day was a bit less productive, but there were some notable highlights: great scope views of Cassin&#8217;s kingbird, an osprey dive-bombing a perched bald eagle, more than 400 American white pelicans, plenty of prairie dogs and fox squirrels. Some of us even got life birds &#8212; and that tally should continue to rise, especially after the promised cold front end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned! Maybe tomorrow I&#8217;ll even remember to take some pictures. Or maybe not: sometimes you&#8217;re just having too much fun to let the camera interrupt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in Denver with seven friends on a Linnaean Society field trip to the western plains. We&#8217;ll be traveling over the next week to the Wildcat Hills, the Pine Ridge, and the Black Hills in search of residents, migrants, and September vagrants. Can&#8217;t wait to see what these days bring! We started this afternoon with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/12\/and-it-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And It Begins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,651,13,2],"tags":[644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10810,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10809\/revisions\/10810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}