{"id":10832,"date":"2017-09-20T19:23:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T02:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10832"},"modified":"2017-09-20T19:23:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T02:23:37","slug":"winter-finches-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/winter-finches-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Finches &#8212; And More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"red crossbill\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/36543191893\/in\/photostream\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4332\/36543191893_cbdccf5168_z.jpg\" alt=\"red crossbill\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The good numbers of red crossbills and pine siskins in\u00a0Nebraska&#8217;s Wildcat Hills this past week bode well for a winter of montane visitors to the western Great Plains.<\/p>\n<p>The less than annual presence of Clark&#8217;s nutcrackers on the Pine Ridge &#8212; we saw more of the species in Nebraska than in South Dakota! &#8212; bodes even better.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Clark's nutcracker, Dawes Co., Nebraska\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/37143616842\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4364\/37143616842_5418a5d2dd_z.jpg\" alt=\"Clark's nutcracker, Dawes Co., Nebraska\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the three Cassin&#8217;s finches at the Wildcat Hills feeders this morning, up from one yesterday, suggest that something truly is happening to our west. Nebraska birders can probably look forward to Steller&#8217;s jays, mountain chickadees, and at least two species of rosy finch this winter. Hopeful souls will be on the lookout for new state records of the Woodhouse&#8217;s jay, bushtit, canyon towhee&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good numbers of red crossbills and pine siskins in\u00a0Nebraska&#8217;s Wildcat Hills this past week bode well for a winter of montane visitors to the western Great Plains. The less than annual presence of Clark&#8217;s nutcrackers on the Pine Ridge &#8212; we saw more of the species in Nebraska than in South Dakota! &#8212; bodes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/winter-finches-and-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winter Finches &#8212; And More?&#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":[651,13,2],"tags":[644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832"}],"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=10832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10833,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions\/10833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}