{"id":1004640,"date":"2012-08-25T11:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004640"},"modified":"2013-02-23T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T17:08:05","slug":"848-florida-scrubjay-at-bugshot-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2012\/08\/25\/848-florida-scrubjay-at-bugshot-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"#848 Florida Scrubjay at Bugshot 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK. This is the second to last day at <a href=\"http:\/\/bugshot.net\">Bugshot<\/a> and a hurricane is coming. I&#8217;m staying at the Archbold Biological Station, home to one of the major, possibly the largest breeding colony of the endangered Florida Scrubjay. I&#8217;m told they come to the parking lot here but I still haven&#8217;t seen one. So this morning early I took off across the railroad tracks before breakfast and promised myself I wasn&#8217;t turning around until I found a scrub jay. And I was not disappointed:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Florida-Scrubjay.jpg\" alt=\"Florida Scrub Jay in sand\" title=\"Florida Scrub Jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens,  an endemic species of Florida\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Florida-Scrubjay.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Florida-Scrubjay-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The photo is less than it should be. I was using a Sigma 180mm macro lens instead of my usual 400mm bird lens, but I saw the bird! In fact, I saw several. That&#8217;s #848 and a Florida endemic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK. This is the second to last day at Bugshot and a hurricane is coming. I&#8217;m staying at the Archbold Biological Station, home to one of the major, possibly the largest breeding colony of the endangered Florida Scrubjay. I&#8217;m told they come to the parking lot here but I still haven&#8217;t seen one. So this [&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":[370,371,369,355],"class_list":["post-1004640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-archbold","tag-bugshot","tag-endangered","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004640","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=1004640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004646,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004640\/revisions\/1004646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}