{"id":140,"date":"2009-02-13T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-02-13T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T18:15:02","slug":"great-backyard-bird-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Great Backyard Bird Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsource.org\/gbbc\/\">GBBC<\/a> sponsored by Cornell University and the Audubon Society is our big bird census activity of the year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Usually I spent 1-2 hours in each of four sites on the land, but this year (since I&#8217;m under orders not to overdo as I recover from pneumonia)\u00a0 today&#8217;s observations at least will all be literally &#8220;yard&#8221; ones.\u00a0\u00a0 So far that&#8217;s only eleven species&#8230;.but my &#8220;special bird&#8221; in the year, the female Pyrrhuloxia, is still here.\u00a0\u00a0 (Usually I see a really interesting bird the day before the count starts, and then not again until afterwards.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who&#8217;s never participated should consider doing so&#8230;it&#8217;s fun and it contributes useful information on bird distribution in winter.\u00a0\u00a0 There are maps, updated constantly, showing where observations have come from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual GBBC sponsored by Cornell University and the Audubon Society is our big bird census activity of the year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Usually I spent 1-2 hours in each of four sites on the land, but this year (since I&#8217;m under orders not to overdo as I recover from pneumonia)\u00a0 today&#8217;s observations at least will all be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[71,8,22],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-wildlife","tag-activities","tag-bird-behavior","tag-census"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}