{"id":56303,"date":"2014-03-02T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=f49c1f75742a6d6c81d5a850b8aa246d"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:42:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:42:57","slug":"return-of-the-yardbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/return-of-the-yardbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Yardbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of you probably know the Backyard Bird Count is happening right now. It’s sort of a cool concept. If you’re unfamiliar with it, check out this link for more info. (Above: badass cedar waxwing and ping pong ball ruby-crowned kinglet)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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My best yardbird is still the harris’s sparrow (not a very common bird). There have been at least five of them hanging around for a couple months but it’s hard to get great looks at them. They are super flushy little guys! They seem to be buddies with the dark-eyed junco flock. I hadn’t seen a Harris’s until last year (also in the yard). Pretty sweet that we’ve got the habitat that they want! I managed to get a couple crappy photos, but nothing to write home about. Today however, one was actually spending quality time on some outside branches, chipping like a maniac. It was a little better photo op than usual. (Above: the elusive harris’s sparrow)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I’ve been missing the ruby-crowned kinglet who was coming to the suet all the time. Damn those guys are feisty! I think maybe he booked it to his breeding spot already (I hope). Had a pretty big flock of rusty blackbirds today in the yard (not too common around here either). Birds, they’re cool. (Above: double-chin, no chin? pine warbler; below: rusty blackbirds)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Lots of you probably know the Backyard Bird Count is happening right now. It’s sort of a cool concept. If you’re unfamiliar with it, check out this link for more info. (Above: badass cedar waxwing and ping pong ball ruby-crowned kinglet) My best yardbird is still the harris’s sparrow (not a very common bird). There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2147786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2123,2749,1971,128,2425,7820,2988],"class_list":["post-56303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blackbird","tag-cedar-waxwing","tag-crow","tag-dark-eyed-junco","tag-jill-wussow","tag-pine-warbler","tag-ruby-crowned-kinglet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56303","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}