{"id":2055075,"date":"2018-12-26T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=bb5c0ef3ab4968bd4c8192ddcd7c50bd"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:38:36","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:38:36","slug":"sleepy-owls-hoodies-and-dogs-on-skateboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/sleepy-owls-hoodies-and-dogs-on-skateboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Owls, Hoodies and Dogs On Skateboards"},"content":{"rendered":"

December has been a slow birding month for me so far. I’ve been reading the local eBird lists and noticed that birders have noticed that the species lists have dropped down to 10-20 species per outing.<\/p>\n

One reason I prefer fishing to birding is that I’ve never been “skunked” while birding.<\/p>\n

There have been many times that I’ve gone fishing and didn’t even get a bite but I always see at least some birds. The other day I caught a Barred Owl napping in a tree.<\/p>\n

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I must admit that I was disappointed that it wouldn’t open his eyes. I realized that the eyes of an owl are what give it that mystical appearance.<\/p>\n

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One thing I enjoy about winter birding is seeing the return of winter ducks like the Hooded Merganser.<\/p>\n

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This dog on a skateboard stopped me in my tracks. It wasn’t just standing on the skateboard but actually propelled itself by using one of its feet.I wish that I had the chance to make a video!<\/p>\n

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December has been a slow birding month for me so far. I’ve been reading the local eBird lists and noticed that birders have noticed that the species lists have dropped down to 10-20 species per outing. One reason I prefer fishing to birding is that I’ve never been “skunked” while birding. There have been many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":2149122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[7846,1334],"class_list":["post-2055075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-barred-owl","tag-hooded-merganser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055075","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\/1904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}