{"id":319,"date":"2013-05-03T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T15:03:54","slug":"birding-in-the-arboretum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/birding-in-the-arboretum\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding in the Arboretum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday started off as a sunny, warm, summer-like day but quickly turned cloudy, cold, and windy.  Maybe it was this sudden turn of weather that kept many birds from showing themselves.  Still, the robins and grackles and sparrows were out.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_320\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_chipping.jpg\" alt=\"Chipping Sparrow in grass\" width=\"800\" height=\"476\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_chipping.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_chipping-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chipping Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_323\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 714px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_song.jpg\" alt=\"Song Sparrow on a branch\" width=\"704\" height=\"492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_song.jpg 704w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_song-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Song Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>It was my first time seeing a chipping sparrow.  I also saw an American goldfinch, common as they may be, for the first time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_321\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_goldfinch.jpg\" alt=\"American goldfinch\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_goldfinch.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_goldfinch-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American goldfinch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And, finally, a pair of mockingbirds were chasing each other near the Visitor Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_322\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_mocking.jpg\" alt=\"Northern Mockinbird on wood chips\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" class=\"size-full wp-image-322\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_mocking.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/2013_05_03_mocking-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Mockinbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday started off as a sunny, warm, summer-like day but quickly turned cloudy, cold, and windy. Maybe it was this sudden turn of weather that kept many birds from showing themselves. Still, the robins and grackles and sparrows were out.<\/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":[126,7,58,124,127,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}