{"id":8230,"date":"2014-01-12T02:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T09:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8230"},"modified":"2014-01-12T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T17:07:45","slug":"weather-and-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/weather-and-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather and Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the answer to <a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/11\/photo-quiz\/\">yesterday&#8217;s photo quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a rough few days over much of the US and Canada, with temperatures like in the old days &#8212; made only worse by the weather people&#8217;s insistence on giving us the &#8220;wind chills,&#8221; too.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been hard on the birds, too, as anyone watching feeders or out driving the country roads will have noticed.\u00a0But I don&#8217;t think it can compare to a nasty night 105 years ago today in Lincoln County, Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-2014-01-06-11.36.26.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8231\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-01-06 11.36.26\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-2014-01-06-11.36.26.png\" width=\"374\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-2014-01-06-11.36.26.png 374w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screenshot-2014-01-06-11.36.26-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most years, I don&#8217;t even <em>see<\/em> 10,000\u00a0<strong>Lapland Longspurs<\/strong>, far less walk around town picking them up from vacant lots.<\/p>\n<p>Stay warm!<\/p>\n<p><em>Congratulations to A.B. for pointing out some of the important characters that permit the identification of this bird. The very long wings are a great way to rule out the superficially similar sparrows and Old World sparrows.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the answer to yesterday&#8217;s photo quiz. It&#8217;s been a rough few days over much of the US and Canada, with temperatures like in the old days &#8212; made only worse by the weather people&#8217;s insistence on giving us the &#8220;wind chills,&#8221; too. It&#8217;s been hard on the birds, too, as anyone watching feeders or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/weather-and-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weather and Birds&#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":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230"}],"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=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}