{"id":96,"date":"2007-07-29T09:11:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T09:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:37:41","slug":"two-lifers-and-least-but-not-least-a-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"two lifers and least, but not least, a weasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we took a trip up to Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin \u2014 our first of the year, I&#8217;m surprised to say. The Wisconsin email list reported two rarities, and we saw them both: a BLACK-NECKED STILT and an AMERICAN AVOCET. We hadn&#8217;t seen these birds since our trip to Texas last year, and it was a strange sight. Lucky for us, the birds also attracted two very good birders: Tom and Carol Sykes. Tom is the administrator of the WISB list that brought us up here. It was a hot day, and the Sykeses were able to get us two lifers: a WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER and a BAIRD&#8217;S SANDPIPER. They helped us navigate our binoculars through the dried-up mud using fish carcases as bearings. Best sighting of the day, though, might have been a LEAST WEASEL that dashed across the road in front of our car. Good day: two rarities, two lifers, and a weasel. But then a weasel day is <em>always<\/em> a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we took a trip up to Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin \u2014 our first of the year, I&#8217;m surprised to say. The Wisconsin email list reported two rarities, and we saw them both: a BLACK-NECKED STILT and an AMERICAN AVOCET. We hadn&#8217;t seen these birds since our trip to Texas last year, and it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifers","category-other-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littleyear.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}