{"id":451,"date":"2006-12-16T18:25:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-17T01:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/16\/the-santa-cruz-flats\/"},"modified":"2021-12-19T17:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T22:34:24","slug":"the-santa-cruz-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/16\/the-santa-cruz-flats\/","title":{"rendered":"The Santa Cruz Flats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My SaddleBrooke group had a great time out on the flats this morning. Most of the excitement was provided by raptors, of course, including <strong>Burrowing Owls<\/strong> and a spectacular <strong>Harlan&#8217;s Hawk<\/strong>. <strong>Crested Caracaras<\/strong>, one of our major targets, showed well on the ground and in the air, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mountain Bluebird<\/strong> numbers are still increasing,\u00c2&nbsp;and we can hope that this will turn out yet to be an invasion winter for that species.\u00c2&nbsp;And even the <strong>Yellow-headed Blackbirds<\/strong> brought forth some well-deserved oohs and aahs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/YheadsDecember%208,%202006%20047.bmp\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My SaddleBrooke group had a great time out on the flats this morning. Most of the excitement was provided by raptors, of course, including Burrowing Owls and a spectacular Harlan&#8217;s Hawk. Crested Caracaras, one of our major targets, showed well on the ground and in the air, too. Mountain Bluebird numbers are still increasing,\u00c2&nbsp;and we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/16\/the-santa-cruz-flats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Santa Cruz Flats&#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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}