{"id":40473,"date":"2013-06-13T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=16f164f0fcde13d6fc379f3288c11192"},"modified":"2021-12-05T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T08:41:45","slug":"june-challenge-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/june-challenge-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"June Challenge Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

So June Challenge has begun. If you’re not a Florida birder, June Challenge is a friendly competition among birders. You choose a county and find as many birds as you can in the county during the month of June. June is hot, and migration is pretty much over. I had some time go out yesterday, and a little time this morning.<\/p>\n

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Osprey Central Winds Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Highlights so far are seeing a Chuck-Will’s Widow and a Great Horned Owl at the Econ River Wilderness Area and also seeing a Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Bachman’s Sparrow at the Lower Wekiva River Preserve. It was also fun to see a bat crawling up a tree.<\/p>\n

I’ve never seen one outside during the daytime before. Ospreys and Great Blue Herons are common year-round here, but it’s still fun to see them.<\/p>\n

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Great Blue Heron Central Winds Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bachman’s Sparrow Lower Wekiwa River Preserve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Common Ground-Dove Lower Wekiva River Preserve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Some Kind of Bat Lower Wekiva River Preserve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So June Challenge has begun. If you’re not a Florida birder, June Challenge is a friendly competition among birders. You choose a county and find as many birds as you can in the county during the month of June. June is hot, and migration is pretty much over. I had some time go out yesterday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2150934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[4331,3155,992,105,4576,608,2465],"class_list":["post-40473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bachmans-sparrow","tag-central-winds-park","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-lower-wekiwa-river-preserve","tag-osprey","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40473","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}