{"id":37537,"date":"2024-09-11T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37537"},"modified":"2024-09-10T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T00:24:07","slug":"just-once-part-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/09\/just-once-part-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Just once, part 37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BobolinkBlab.jpg\" alt=\"likely male bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus perched on marsh reeds and calling\" width=\"750\" height=\"933\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25940\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This week we have both a male and female bobolink (<em>Dolichonyx oryzivorus<\/em>,) found in the tall grasses of Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina. Now, <em>why<\/em> there has only been one appearance of them before, I cannot say, since they are found throughout the eastern seaboard, but it might have something to do with there being no fields of tall grasses and grains anywhere near where I usually spend my time. This guy does at least appear to like his grains. It&#8217;s the male of course, while the female is below<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BoboBack.jpg\" alt=\"female bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus seen from the rear\" width=\"750\" height=\"810\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25941\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>When I re-use these images, they come along with the original &#8216;alt data&#8217; from the first time I posted them, both of which had typos within them &#8211; sheesh. And while I&#8217;m not a &#8216;birder,&#8217; I will take the opportunity to record species that I haven&#8217;t seen before, as long as they&#8217;re not just some variation of sparrows or &#8216;brown birds&#8217; &#8211; not that I have anything against brown birds, mind you, some of my best friends are&#8230; well, not really, but regardless, I&#8217;m cool with them, I just find them boring.<\/p>\n<p>I took that same opportunity to do some brief video clips as well, braced against the open window of the vehicle we took through the refuge &#8211; mostly just feeding behavior, but I did get their calls in there.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/416006515?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Bobolinks feeding and calling\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I believe this was the last time that we passed through that refuge, which has been a little long &#8211; I&#8217;ve been to Montezuma in New York three time since then, though I can put those down to extenuating circumstances. Still, we should get back to Savannah at some point&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have both a male and female bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus,) found in the tall grasses of Savannah National Wildlife Refuge, South Carolina. Now, why there has only been one appearance of them before, I cannot say, since they are found throughout the eastern seaboard, but it might have something to do with there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,3809],"tags":[5501,5502,718],"class_list":["post-37537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-video","tag-bobolink","tag-dolichonyx-oryzivorus","tag-savannah-national-wildlife-refuge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537","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=37537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}