{"id":1191,"date":"2015-05-04T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2015-05-04T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:24:01","slug":"birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/birds\/","title":{"rendered":"BIRDS!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another great update from Dan Jackson, La Crosse, WI. I will add that I saw my first hummer this morning!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0961.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_0961-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nice Vertical Hummer\" width=\"195\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The floodgates opened over the weekend when the winds changed to come from the south and bird migration really increased. Many new species were reported in the area including Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Grey Catbirds, Baltimore Orioles, Shorebirds, Vireos, and about 10 species of Warblers. The next couple of weeks should be wild!!<\/p>\n<p>Steve Houdek reported a huge flock of shorebirds north of Winona:<\/p>\n<p>For the traveler- hundreds of shorebirds (maybe 500+) present at Whitewater Wildlife Management Area about 15 miles north of Winona and 2-3 miles west on MN Hwy 74&#8230; This included both Yellowlegs, Pectoral, Least and other Sandpipers&#8230;area is drawn down and burned&#8230;lots of excellent mud flat<\/p>\n<p>I also had a nice diversity of shorebirds at a pond on the north side of Hwy 162 between Stoddard and Chaseburg (opposite Wing Hollow Road). This included both Yellowlegs, Pectoral, Least &amp; Spotted Sandpipers, Wilson&#8217;s Phalarope and Snipe, Short-billed Dowitcher, and Killdeer. There are lots of mudflats at Goose Island and many shorebirds were seen there too!!<\/p>\n<p>This is a great time to get out and enjoy the birds!<\/p>\n<p>Dan Jackson, President<br \/>\nCoulee Region Audubon Society<br \/>\nLa Crosse, Wisconsin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great update from Dan Jackson, La Crosse, WI. I will add that I saw my first hummer this morning! The floodgates opened over the weekend when the winds changed to come from the south and bird migration really increased. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/birds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-upper-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}