{"id":61,"date":"2006-10-05T19:48:22","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:37:41","slug":"after-three-months-another-lifer-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"after three months, another lifer [275]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good day at the Chicago Botanic Garden, for once. It was a nice day, and there were lots of birds. One of them \u2014 a WINTER WREN \u2014 was a lifer for us both. We saw this dark brown bird with a short, stubby tail dash in front of us, and Pole immediately guessed what it was. We saw it a couple of more times flitting through the shrubbery, and so her hunch was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>We also so a huge number of golden-crowned kinglets in the deep grasses beside the one of the paths. (I guess that many birds means it was an official flock.) Working a nearby tree was a chubby brown creeper. We then walked the prairie, which was mostly chest high and full of goldfinches and sparrows. And a solitary snipe. Oh, and I don&#8217;t want to neglect mentioning the great blue heron that landed about twenty feet away from us, turned its back, and relieved itself prodigiously. We&#8217;ve never be so close to a heron before, which I now realize is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good day at the Chicago Botanic Garden, for once. It was a nice day, and there were lots of birds. One of them \u2014 a WINTER WREN \u2014 was a lifer for us both. We saw this dark brown bird with a short, stubby tail dash in front of us, and Pole immediately guessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifers","category-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}