{"id":3523,"date":"2011-03-15T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T23:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2018-04-07T21:29:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T04:29:05","slug":"an-unwelcome-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/an-unwelcome-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unwelcome Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It felt like a morning for spring arrivals, all damp and warm, so Gellert and I struck out for Jericho Park. Our walk was pleasant enough, and there was a small fall of <strong>Red-shafted Flickers <\/strong>and <strong>American Robins<\/strong>, but our hopes for novelty went unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Except by this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5093\/5529932371_9e2854629a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This lone <strong>Mute Swan <\/strong>was out on English Bay, far from the allurements of the duck pond, and presumably got there under its own power. The nearest source is Lost Lagoon, a couple of miles away in Stanley Park, but I&#8217;m told that all those birds are pinioned; the closest obviously feral swans that I know of are on Westham Island, five or six miles south.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe this is Canada&#8217;s first wild Mute Swan.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It felt like a morning for spring arrivals, all damp and warm, so Gellert and I struck out for Jericho Park. Our walk was pleasant enough, and there was a small fall of Red-shafted Flickers and American Robins, but our hopes for novelty went unfulfilled. Except by this. This lone Mute Swan was out on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/an-unwelcome-arrival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Unwelcome Arrival&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523"}],"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=3523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3523\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}