{"id":927,"date":"2015-09-22T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=927"},"modified":"2015-09-22T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T17:35:12","slug":"the-sunlight-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"The Sunlit Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By late September, temperatures generally drop quite a bit overnight and do not rise again until mid to late morning. For early morning birding, look for edge habitat that is sunlit; these areas are warmer, drier, and usually have plenty of insect activity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For example, this morning I walked through a damp, cool, mature woodlot in the west end of Ottawa. 4 species of bird only. As soon as I encountered sunlit edge habitat: 5 species of warbler (including Ovenbird), 3 species of vireo, and 3 species of sparrow within a 10 m radius!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12042654_10205285819928940_2316549278125194759_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-930 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12042654_10205285819928940_2316549278125194759_n-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"12042654_10205285819928940_2316549278125194759_n\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12042654_10205285819928940_2316549278125194759_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/12042654_10205285819928940_2316549278125194759_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: A sunlit edge along an NCC Trail in the west end of Ottawa. 21 September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The power of the pause (and silence) applies here: get in your speed-walking and talking where it&#8217;s quiet, and hit <em>Stealth Mode<\/em> around the edge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By late September, temperatures generally drop quite a bit overnight and do not rise again until mid to late morning. For early morning birding, look for edge habitat that is sunlit; these areas are warmer, drier, and usually have plenty of insect activity.<\/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-927","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\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}