{"id":272,"date":"2013-04-05T23:04:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T03:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2013-04-05T23:04:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T03:04:24","slug":"birding-leverett-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/birding-leverett-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding Leverett Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw two birds for the first time yesterday.  First, a pair of double-crested cormorants were lounging in the middle of Leverett Pond, black but for their orange chins.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_273\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_273\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_cormorant.jpg\" alt=\"Double-crested cormorants\" title=\"Double-crested cormorants\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" class=\"size-full wp-image-273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_cormorant.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_cormorant-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Double-crested cormorants bask in the sun on Leverett Pond.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAlong the shore, I saw a brown creeper, spiraling around the trunk of a number of trees.  This was also a first for me.  Note the creeper moves up a trunk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_274\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 760px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_creeper.jpg\" alt=\"Brown creeper\" title=\"Brown creeper\" width=\"750\" height=\"616\" class=\"size-full wp-image-274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_creeper.jpg 750w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_creeper-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown creeper moving up a tree trunk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I saw this white-breasted nuthatch moving down a nearby trunk.  Both were picking at the bark, looking for insects.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_275\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_nuthatch.jpg\" alt=\"White-breasted nuthatch\" title=\"White-breasted nuthatch\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_nuthatch.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_nuthatch-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-breasted nuthatch moving down a tree trunk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, a downy woodpecker, a handsome black-and-white fellow.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_276\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_woodpecker.jpg\" alt=\"Downy woodpecker\" title=\"Downy woodpecker\" width=\"800\" height=\"544\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_woodpecker.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013_04_05_woodpecker-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downy woodpecker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/view\/checklist?subID=S13632451\">Complete e-bird checklist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw two birds for the first time yesterday. First, a pair of double-crested cormorants were lounging in the middle of Leverett Pond, black but for their orange chins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,107,105,104,72,102,103,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}