{"id":79,"date":"2009-03-23T07:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-03-23T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T14:57:39","slug":"sandhill-cranes-and-spring-in-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/sandhill-cranes-and-spring-in-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Cranes and SPRING in the valley."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84\" title=\"crex-meadow-sandhill-11-copy1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/crex-meadow-sandhill-11-copy1.jpg\" alt=\"crex-meadow-sandhill-11-copy1\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/crex-meadow-sandhill-11-copy1.jpg 320w, http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/crex-meadow-sandhill-11-copy1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>I had an Australian friend who never understood why spring was such a joy to those of us in the Upper Midwest\u2014until she visited here in Winter.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the sun was out, the wetlands were wet instead of icy and the Sandhill crane pair were \u201cwalking the land\u201d as they do every spring. Normally they arrive with the yearling from last year, but this year there are only two. When they walked into the bottomland forest, our new resident eagle flew out! It was a great moment of birding on the farm.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m curious now to see whether nesting will be delayed this year by the slightly later spring\u00a0(normally they are on the nest by April 5). And I wonder how they will feel about raising young with a pair of adult bald eagles hunting in the same bottoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an Australian friend who never understood why spring was such a joy to those of us in the Upper Midwest\u2014until she visited here in Winter. Yesterday the sun was out, the wetlands were wet instead of icy and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/sandhill-cranes-and-spring-in-the-valley\/\">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":[8,7,12],"tags":[91,139,90,92],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-ramblin","category-upper-mississippi","tag-bald-eagle","tag-birding","tag-sandhill-cranes","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}