{"id":73627,"date":"2014-05-23T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=2d51b637290c9d457c872094ea9fa928"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:06:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T13:06:45","slug":"i-have-not-forgotten-you-i-havent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/i-have-not-forgotten-you-i-havent\/","title":{"rendered":"I have not forgotten you, I haven\u2019t."},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh. Well hello there, strangers. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? My quality time with these internets are awfully fleeting. I am working\/living\/playing pretty much in the middle of nowhere and no longer really know how to interact with other people. It’s all awkward-organism-like when I’m in public these days.<\/p>\n

I’m a total dirtball. I’m averaging one shower every 7-10 days. It’s not my fault, It’s just that I’m in the field for that long and living in a truck\/pop-up tent. It’s actually really sweet.<\/p>\n

There’s a good change you’ll be really jealous when I post photos of my field sites and where I’m hanging out.<\/p>\n

Or, if not, you’ll just be totally disgusted and grossed out by the fact I live in a dirty tent that smells like sage and rarely have a chance to shower.<\/p>\n

I happen to dig it.<\/p>\n

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Rock Wren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The only downside to this field season has been the weather. The !!%?*!? weather! This last 6 day stretch, it snowed pretty much every. single. day. Temps at night have been below freezing 98 percent of the time, with a few mornings in teens. All our water froze (as did my contacts, in their solution, almond milk, bananas, etc) a couple mornings, which resulted in NO COFFEE! At 0430, in 17 degrees, this was a real bummer.<\/p>\n

No one (uh, the two of us) were in good moods that day. I am happy and proud to say I have survived these many nights (and days) of below freezing weather. If you know me at all, you know I do not thrive in cold temperatures. At all. I lose feeling in my fingers and toes at about 60 degrees, so I have been spending a gross amount of money on hand\/toe\/feet\/body warmers. Shit, those fools should sponsor me…<\/p>\n

Anyway, hey! Here’s some birds! These are not birds I’m working with but here they are anyway, for your enjoyment. From the top, we’ve got: Brewer’s Blackbird in a fluffball bath (ahh…bird baths!), a rock wren singing his cute little heart out, a trumpeter swan pair, and a yellow-headed blackbird showing off. (All taken in the Ruby Valley, Nevada)<\/p>\n

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Oh. Well hello there, strangers. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? My quality time with these internets are awfully fleeting. I am working\/living\/playing pretty much in the middle of nowhere and no longer really know how to interact with other people. It’s all awkward-organism-like when I’m in public these days. I’m a total dirtball. I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2195506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OnXfwkkKKzQ\/U27bzfuHz7I\/AAAAAAAAKxo\/EzWSCM44td0\/s1600\/rockwren.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"I have not forgotten you, I haven\u2019t.","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2123,2425,1569,2115,404],"class_list":["post-73627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-blackbird","tag-jill-wussow","tag-trumpeter-swan","tag-wren","tag-yellowhead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73627","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=73627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}