{"id":12040,"date":"2024-03-02T22:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T03:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2024-03-02T22:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T03:02:43","slug":"crooked-tree-and-birds-eye-view-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/02\/crooked-tree-and-birds-eye-view-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooked Tree and Birds Eye View Lodge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12041\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png 640w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Right on the shores of Crooked Tree Lagoon, Birds Eye View will be our comfortable home base for the next couple of days. Toni and I arrived mid-afternoon, leaving us time for a little birding before the rest of our group arrives, and it has been well worth it. Among our highlights so far: the <strong>black-collared hawk<\/strong> that flapped in to land just a few yards away, and several <strong>lesser yellow-headed vultures<\/strong> skimming the low treetops in search of carrion. And of course, the dapper little <strong>Morelet seedeater<\/strong>, a bird that if it isn&#8217;t everyone&#8217;s favorite should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12042\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4.png 640w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-4-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Birding starts up in earnest tomorrow morning. Can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right on the shores of Crooked Tree Lagoon, Birds Eye View will be our comfortable home base for the next couple of days. Toni and I arrived mid-afternoon, leaving us time for a little birding before the rest of our group arrives, and it has been well worth it. Among our highlights so far: the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/02\/crooked-tree-and-birds-eye-view-lodge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crooked Tree and Birds Eye View Lodge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040"}],"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=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12043,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions\/12043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}