{"id":1945,"date":"2023-04-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbannaturestore.blog\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2023-04-16T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:00:00","slug":"the-winds-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/16\/the-winds-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winds of Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are in a time of transition when the weather doesn\u2019t seem to know what it wants<br>to do. We still have lingering winter visitors but spring birds are slowly advancing,<br>anxious to begin the annual breeding season. If we haven\u2019t seen them already, most<br>of us will soon have Song Sparrows in our yards and hear their cheery melody.<br>Grackles and Red-winged Blackbirds have become common features, picking up<br>seeds on the ground and hogging the show with other species. You will see adult and<br>juvenile male Red-wings initially before the striped females show up in a couple of<br>weeks. The males spend that time selecting a territory for prospective mates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/snow-and-canada-geese.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/snow-and-canada-geese.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/snow-and-canada-geese-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/snow-and-canada-geese-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/snow-and-canada-geese-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/snow-and-canada-geese-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is peak time for migrant geese to appear. While some Canada Geese spend the<br>winter here and will remain to nest locally, vast numbers are migrants, heading<br>north to the Arctic for the summer. In the eastern part of the province, tens of<br>thousands of Snow Geese remain for a few weeks until they head down the St.<br>Lawrence into Quebec before they too move into the Arctic. The breeding cycle is in<br>full swing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Birding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Brian Morin <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher of Ontario Birding News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in a time of transition when the weather doesn\u2019t seem to know what it wantsto do. We still have lingering winter visitors but spring birds are slowly advancing,anxious to begin the annual breeding season. If we haven\u2019t seen them already, mostof us will soon have Song Sparrows in our yards and hear their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[26,60,61,103,76,30,17],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-janes-deck-of-birds","category-uns-birding-blog","tag-birdseeds","tag-birdwatching","tag-canadawildbirding","tag-springbirding","tag-unsbirds","tag-unsblogs","tag-urbannaturestore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.mppdev.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}