{"id":2647,"date":"2016-06-03T01:12:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T01:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2020-05-29T19:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:38:43","slug":"arctic-terns-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=2647","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Terns in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The passage of Arctic Terns along the Ottawa River is an annual event which typically occurs from the last few days of May through to the first week of June. <!--more--> Their arrival coincides with the emergence of millions of caddisflies and mayflies; this is\u00a0a great way to stock up before continuing northward. The &#8216;clas<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">sic&#8217; weather pattern to watch for (a Ron Pittaway &#8216;find&#8217;): a cold front in early June, halting northward migration and encouraging a stop at the Britannia Rapids all-u-can-eat fly buffet.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>The birds Richard observed tonight are likely to remain in the area, so I highly recommend dropping by the point tomorrow sometime between 6:30 &#8211; 8:30 PM. There&#8217;s nothing quite like watching an Arctic Tern hawking over rapids late in the day <i class=\"_lew\" title=\"smile emoticon\"><i class=\"_4-k1 img sp_fM-mz8spZ1b sx_5371b4\"><\/i><span class=\"_4mcd\">\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/123ccfbdadea197830d5ee176908e214078d5cb5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2650 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/123ccfbdadea197830d5ee176908e214078d5cb5-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"123ccfbdadea197830d5ee176908e214078d5cb5\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/123ccfbdadea197830d5ee176908e214078d5cb5-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/123ccfbdadea197830d5ee176908e214078d5cb5.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: &#8220;Arctic Terns at Sea&#8221; by Philip Snow (<a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.artistsandillustrators.co.uk%2Fphilipsnow%2Fartwork%2F12950&amp;h=oAQG6T74lAQFYaB1mWhcCJUWElE_fCPxt7SAkUCBeA98kaQ&amp;enc=AZORSJFUFlRwd3RL2DjTTgnYP6au5KTR6WG1d8zOTNd-_cjphcDlEufCJh8mN7PrCC2CmMvZtbhLQjKSyILbcJH-qt6JSI7lQSPjRZDEKrH-eH-OzFkICkLzcQkmEoqcWX_Swkq_E_4vja4LoHhKRcD7gPwS62zaSo_1lfwS3-8AtBXdAR4SYzFV5zC8LP2mrvk&amp;s=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk\/phili\u2026\/artwork\/12950<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The passage of Arctic Terns along the Ottawa River is an annual event which typically occurs from the last few days of May through to the first week of June.<\/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-2647","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\/2647","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=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16481,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/16481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}