{"id":3210,"date":"2015-03-31T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T01:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2021-01-14T20:59:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T01:59:59","slug":"spring-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/spring-sightings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As April approaches overnight, every day becomes an adventure wondering what migrating birds and insects might be found. Today I found one migrant and two winter friends who are happy to see spring arrive.<\/p>\n<h2>Spring Sightings (So Far)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletCOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3212\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletCOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x317.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Golden Crowned Kinglet C On NaturalCrooksDotCom\" width=\"400\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletCOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x317.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletCOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-200x158.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletCOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-377x300.jpg 377w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletCOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>My first &#8220;new arrival&#8221; Golden Crowned Kinglet of spring!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3218\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x350.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Golden Crowned Kinglet Saddington On NaturalCrooksDotCom\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x350.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-200x175.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-342x300.jpg 342w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/GoldenCrownedKingletOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/HairyWoodpeckerMaleCloseuponNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3213\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/HairyWoodpeckerMaleCloseuponNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Hairy Woodpecker Male Closeup on NaturalCrooksDotCom\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/HairyWoodpeckerMaleCloseuponNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/HairyWoodpeckerMaleCloseuponNaturalCrooksDotCom-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/HairyWoodpeckerMaleCloseuponNaturalCrooksDotCom-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/HairyWoodpeckerMaleCloseuponNaturalCrooksDotCom-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/HairyWoodpeckerMaleCloseuponNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Before stopping for a snack, this Hairy Woodpecker was drumming to mark his territory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RedBelliedWoodpeckerMaleRattrayonNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3211\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RedBelliedWoodpeckerMaleRattrayonNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x365.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of RedBellied Woodpecker Male Rattray on NaturalCrooksDotCom\" width=\"400\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RedBelliedWoodpeckerMaleRattrayonNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x365.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RedBelliedWoodpeckerMaleRattrayonNaturalCrooksDotCom-200x182.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RedBelliedWoodpeckerMaleRattrayonNaturalCrooksDotCom-328x300.jpg 328w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/RedBelliedWoodpeckerMaleRattrayonNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This Red Bellied Woodpecker was calling long and loudly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If we ever get weather that stays above zero, day and night, we may see the flood of birds sweep in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"The Lure of the Lapland Longspurs\" href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/lure-lapland-longspurs\/\"><strong>The Lure of Lapland Longspurs<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Join In<\/strong><br \/>\nHave you seen any spring migrants yet this year? Please share your favourite spring sighting with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sight of someone new zipping through the twigs and tulgy brightened today&#8217;s overcast gloom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,335,337,336],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambles","tag-birds","tag-golden-crowned-kinglet","tag-hairy-woodpecker","tag-red-bellied-woodpecker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}