{"id":12349,"date":"2019-01-26T00:40:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T00:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=12349"},"modified":"2019-01-26T00:43:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T00:43:55","slug":"spring-migration-in-eastern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=12349","title":{"rendered":"Spring Migration in Eastern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, but we are only 4-5 weeks away from the usual arrival time of our first springtime migrants here in eastern Ontario! The passage of a warm air mass in late-February usually coincides with the arrival of blackbirds, such as Red-winged Blackbird and Common Grackle.<!--more--> If the front is significant, thousands of male Red-winged&#8217;s may push north to Lake Ontario at this time. \u201cPrairie\u201d Horned Larks begin to arrive and perform display\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">flights. Ring-billed Gulls are spotted hanging around in McDonald\u2019s parking lots, keeping an eye out for french fries. So, all this to say, hang in there and try to enjoy various winter activities in the meantime (but bundle up&#8230;it&#8217;s like the High Arctic out there right now!) Winter is tough, but the light at the end of the tunnel is already getting brighter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Have a great weekend\u00a0<span class=\"_47e3 _5mfr\" title=\"smile emoticon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/ta5\/1.5\/16\/1f642.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50230571_10213913062364609_6932712265313419264_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12355\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50230571_10213913062364609_6932712265313419264_o-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50230571_10213913062364609_6932712265313419264_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50230571_10213913062364609_6932712265313419264_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50230571_10213913062364609_6932712265313419264_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/50230571_10213913062364609_6932712265313419264_o.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: &#8220;Prairie&#8221; (praticola) Horned Lark. Rushmore Road, Ottawa, Ontario. Late-winter 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, but we are only 4-5 weeks away from the usual arrival time of our first springtime migrants here in eastern Ontario! The passage of a warm air mass in late-February usually coincides with the arrival of blackbirds, such as Red-winged Blackbird and Common Grackle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12356,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12349\/revisions\/12356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}