{"id":1004060,"date":"2011-11-10T20:07:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T01:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004060"},"modified":"2012-06-12T17:58:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T22:58:05","slug":"791-painted-bunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2011\/11\/10\/791-painted-bunting\/","title":{"rendered":"#792 Painted Bunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I signed up for a special trip with Jon Dunn. Jon&#8217;s a great birder and a fun guy (and also co-author of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds) but we did visit a strict subset of the sites I had visited the day before with Greg Miller on the Big Day so I didn&#8217;t find too many new birds; and only one was a life bird, #792 Painted Bunting. It was a female, and I only saw it for about a second and a half, so no photo. <\/p>\n<p>It was extremely windy today, even more so than yesterday. yesterday the wind only tried to steal my hat. Today it succeeded:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tilley-Hat.jpg\" alt=\"Tilley Hat in swamp\" title=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tilley-Hat.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Tilley-Hat-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was going to leave the hat there, but a fellow birder was braver than me and climbed off the boardwalk, into the swamp, ignoring the &#8220;Beware of Alligator&#8221; signs, to retrieve it. It wasn&#8217;t just me either. Jon lost his hat once too. <\/p>\n<p>I also managed to miss, once again, Green-tailed Towhee. Jon and some other group members found it, but I did not. It&#8217;s turning into this trip&#8217;s nemesis bird.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After yesterday&#8217;s seven life birds I was hoping I might hit 800 on this trip. However, with only one new species today that doesn&#8217;t look likely unless things really perk up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I signed up for a special trip with Jon Dunn. Jon&#8217;s a great birder and a fun guy (and also co-author of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds) but we did visit a strict subset of the sites I had visited the day before with Greg Miller on the Big Day so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004060"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004284,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004060\/revisions\/1004284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}