{"id":52039,"date":"2013-11-01T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=bbba63dddc163378a2d86f1286c4e4f4"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:36:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:36:57","slug":"grasshopper-sparrows-have-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/grasshopper-sparrows-have-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshopper Sparrows Have Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love fall migration, don’t get me wrong, but I get really excited when sparrows start coming in. This past Saturday I found my first Savannah Sparrow at Merritt Island, and today I went to my favorite local spot for sparrows on a little street south of Lake Jesup. It’s just a fence line with dense vegetation around it and an open field on both sides.<\/p>\n

But it’s a great spot for sparrows. Today I found Swamp, Savannah and Grasshopper Sparrows here. The Grasshopper Sparrows were unusually cooperative. Shortly after I arrived I saw one perch a distance away on the top of a fence post along with a Savannah Sparrow.<\/p>\n

Then a little later a couple flew pretty close to me; one perched on a fence post and another on a plant, and they posed for a few minutes. Shortly after they left I saw two again in similar places. Perhaps they’re the same two.<\/p>\n

They gave me my best photos of the species I have to date. I’m looking forward to what else might come in over the next couple months!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper and Savannah Sparrows<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Grasshopper Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love fall migration, don’t get me wrong, but I get really excited when sparrows start coming in. This past Saturday I found my first Savannah Sparrow at Merritt Island, and today I went to my favorite local spot for sparrows on a little street south of Lake Jesup. It’s just a fence line with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2147379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[674,3245,3012,2465,3117],"class_list":["post-52039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-grasshopper-sparrow","tag-lake-jesup","tag-savannah-sparrow","tag-scott-simmons","tag-vesper-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52039","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=52039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}