{"id":752606,"date":"2016-01-07T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=6cb6a703e63b1e2e625d1933cfb90091"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:03:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:03:49","slug":"bronzed-cowbirds-in-la-carreta-parking-lot-12272015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/bronzed-cowbirds-in-la-carreta-parking-lot-12272015\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronzed Cowbirds in La Carreta Parking Lot, 12\/27\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

After finding our Burrowing Owls, we drove down to Miami-Dade County and stopped at a La Carreta Cuban Restaurant.<\/p>\n

We didn’t go for the food, though I would have loved to have tried the food there (I love Cuban food).<\/p>\n

We went to find cowbirds in the parking lot. It wasn’t long before we started finding them everywhere, usually hiding under the cars behind the restaurant.<\/p>\n

At one point, two perched up on top of a car. Those were probably my best pictures, even if their setting is anything but natural.<\/p>\n

The sun captured the purple iridescence of one pretty well.<\/p>\n

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Bronzed Cowbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bronzed Cowbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bronzed Cowbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s my eBird checklist for the the La Carreta parking lot. The only other bird of any interest we saw here was a Monk Parakeet.<\/p>\n

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After finding our Burrowing Owls, we drove down to Miami-Dade County and stopped at a La Carreta Cuban Restaurant. We didn’t go for the food, though I would have loved to have tried the food there (I love Cuban food). We went to find cowbirds in the parking lot. It wasn’t long before we started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2196323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/12-27\/i-k8vdrZB\/0\/L\/_MG_0272-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[21,6230],"class_list":["post-752606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-burrowing-owl","tag-monk-parakeet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752606","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=752606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}