{"id":34334,"date":"2023-05-06T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=34334"},"modified":"2023-05-06T19:35:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T23:35:08","slug":"one-week-to-prepare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/05\/one-week-to-prepare\/","title":{"rendered":"One week to prepare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a little less now, because I&#8217;m posting this later than I should, but next Saturday, May 13<sup>th<\/sup>, is <strong>World Migratory Bird Day<\/strong> for the Americas, so make your plans now. For once, we have no traveling that falls around that weekend, though my own schedule flanking it is a little booked, so we&#8217;ll see what happens. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CormorantDepth.jpg\" alt=\"pair of double-crested cormorants Nannopterum auritum perched on pilings\" width=\"750\" height=\"1159\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34335\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>It&#8217;s not like I don&#8217;t get the chance to photograph migratory birds on other days anyway &#8211; you&#8217;re about to see a bunch more shortly &#8211; but maybe I can slip in something more than photography. So for now, we have some images from the past few days<strong>:<\/strong> a pair of female double-crested cormorants (<em>Nannopterum auritum<\/em>) above, and a chipping sparrow (<em>Spizella passerina<\/em>) below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SpiderSparrow.jpg\" alt=\"chipping sparrow Spizella passerina with captured spider prey\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34336\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I got a bit lucky with this one, seeing it foraging in the shadows near sunset yesterday, and tracked it until it entered the low golden light, whereupon it snagged a spider for a meal. But we also have to see the details of the body plumage<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SparrowPlumage.jpg\" alt=\"back plumage of chipping sparrow Spizella passerina\" width=\"750\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34337\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Isn&#8217;t that slick? I wonder if I can find a jacket like that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you have a week, kinda. Make some plans and have at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a little less now, because I&#8217;m posting this later than I should, but next Saturday, May 13th, is World Migratory Bird Day for the Americas, so make your plans now. For once, we have no traveling that falls around that weekend, though my own schedule flanking it is a little booked, so we&#8217;ll see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[4241,76,6650,4242,4389],"class_list":["post-34334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-chipping-sparrow","tag-double-crested-cormorant","tag-nannopterum-auritum","tag-spizella-passerina","tag-world-migratory-bird-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}