{"id":12,"date":"2008-12-07T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T22:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-12-08T00:20:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T06:20:31","slug":"first-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"First-of-Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nature listservs I&#8217;m on carefully notes the first sighting of migrants (going or coming) at each location.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, I saw the first Fox Sparrow of winter at Owl Pavilion today around noon.  As  usual, it was shyer than some of the other birds  (cardinals will practically part my hair; Bewick&#8217;s and Carolina wrens have perched on the hammock I was in) and tried to keep stalks of grass between itself and me.  But I know my winter sparrows and that russet back and boldly striped breast belong to no other.<\/p>\n<p>Our wintering sparrows include White-crowned, White-throated, Field, Lincoln&#8217;s, Savannah, Song, Harris&#8217;s, Vesper, and Fox.  Spring and fall migrations sometimes drop another one on us briefly, but never in great numbers.  I like the winter sparrows a lot&#8211;used to think &#8220;small streaky brown mysteries&#8221;, but spent one winter studying them and another practicing.<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t seen a thrush or thrasher yet this year, but did catch sight of a flicker, though not today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the nature listservs I&#8217;m on carefully notes the first sighting of migrants (going or coming) at each location. With that in mind, I saw the first Fox Sparrow of winter at Owl Pavilion today around noon. As usual, it was shyer than some of the other birds (cardinals will practically part my hair; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}