{"id":10255,"date":"2012-05-10T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=10255"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:19:03","slug":"spring-is-finally-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/spring-is-finally-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is Finally Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\" style=\"clear:both;\"><figure id=\"attachment_10254\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 610px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10254 size-full\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"600\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>We started the morning at Petrie Island. It was beautiful sunshine with a crisp spring wind coming from north-west.<\/p>\n<p>Song Sparrows were singing everywhere and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers were drumming from several places.<\/p>\n<p>The short trail around the island revealed Yellow-rumped Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and a Winter Wren.<\/p>\n<p>After our obligatory stop at Timmy&#8217;s we went driving around, and on our journey we saw Greater Yellowlegs, Sandhill Crane, Bald Eagle, Barn &amp; Tree Swallow, several sparrows and other songbirds.All in all we ended up with 52 species on this glorious day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\" style=\"clear:both;\"><figure id=\"attachment_10253\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 610px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Female-Yellow-rumped-Warbler.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10253 size-full\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Female-Yellow-rumped-Warbler.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"600\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Female Yellow-rumped Warbler<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\">\n<p class=\"none\" style=\"clear:both;\"><figure id=\"attachment_10252\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 910px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Wood-Duck-Photo-Courtesy-Roger-Cobbledick.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" 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https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Wood-Duck-Photo-Courtesy-Roger-Cobbledick.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Wood-Duck-Photo-Courtesy-Roger-Cobbledick.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Wood-Duck-Photo-Courtesy-Roger-Cobbledick.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Wood-Duck-Photo-Courtesy-Roger-Cobbledick.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Wood-Duck-Photo-Courtesy-Roger-Cobbledick.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Wood-Duck-Photo-Courtesy-Roger-Cobbledick.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10252 size-full\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Wood-Duck-Photo-Courtesy-Roger-Cobbledick.jpg?ssl=1\" width=\"900\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Male Wood Duck, Photo Courtesy Roger Cobbledick<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>American Black Duck American Goldfinch American Robin American Tree Sparrow Bald Eagle Barn Swallow Belted Kingfisher Black-capped Chickadee Blue Jay Brown Creeper Brown-headed Cowbird Bufflehead Canada Goose Chipping Sparrow Common Grackle Common Merganser Common Moorhen Common Raven Double-crested Cormorant Downy Woodpecker European Starling Great Blue Heron Greater Yellowlegs Green-winged Teal Hairy Woodpecker House Finch House Sparrow Killdeer Mallard Mourning Dove Northern Flicker Northern Harrier Osprey Red-tailed Hawk Red-winged Blackbird Ring-billed Gull Ring-necked Duck Rock Pigeon Ruby-crowned Kinglet Sandhill Crane Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Tree Swallow Turkey Vulture White-breasted Nuthatch White-throated Sparrow Wild Turkey Wilson&#8217;s Snipe Winter Wren Wood Duck Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-rumped Warbler<\/p>\n<p>Visit our website &#8220;Always an Adventure with Tony and Nina&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started the morning at Petrie Island. It was beautiful sunshine with a crisp spring wind coming from north-west. Song Sparrows were singing everywhere and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers were drumming from several places. The short trail around the island revealed Yellow-rumped Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and a Winter Wren. After our obligatory stop at Timmy&#8217;s we went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":2192144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Male-Yellow-bellied-Sapsucker.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}