{"id":8437,"date":"2014-03-12T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T22:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2014-03-12T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T22:12:08","slug":"yard-bird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/yard-bird-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard Bird!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into our third spring in this house now, we&#8217;re still ticking off the occasional &#8220;yard bird&#8221; &#8212; birderspeak for a species detected for the first time in or from or over our little suburban postage stamp of a lot.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always fun to see something new, but we&#8217;ve lived in so many places over so many years that our cumulative yard list, as opposed to our current yard list, is distressingly close to hitting a brick wall. That made doubly exciting this afternoon&#8217;s visitor, a bird I can&#8217;t recall ever having seen before from the comfort of my own window.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Red-shouldered Hawk by Rick Wright, Tours and Private Guiding, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/13113118933\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Red-shouldered Hawk\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3787\/13113118933_85c363705f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This adult\u00a0<strong>Red-shouldered Hawk\u00a0<\/strong>flew in to perch behind our back fence early this dim, rainy evening. Almost certainly a migrant (and almost certainly about to face a tough day or two as the temperatures fall and the ground freezes again), it surveyed the surroundings, a bit disdainfully, I thought, and then flashed off through the woods. I&#8217;d gladly offer it a\u00a0<strong>Slate-colored Junco\u00a0<\/strong>or a\u00a0<strong>Red Fox Sparrow\u00a0<\/strong>or two if it would like to stay around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into our third spring in this house now, we&#8217;re still ticking off the occasional &#8220;yard bird&#8221; &#8212; birderspeak for a species detected for the first time in or from or over our little suburban postage stamp of a lot. It&#8217;s always fun to see something new, but we&#8217;ve lived in so many places over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/yard-bird-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yard Bird!&#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":[63,1,52,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437"}],"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=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions\/8439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}