{"id":55,"date":"2022-05-01T23:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/?p=55"},"modified":"2022-05-01T23:04:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:04:32","slug":"bioblitz-bananza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/2022\/05\/01\/bioblitz-bananza\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioblitz Bananza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2006\" height=\"1128\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/files\/2022\/05\/Rockpoint-sunset-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/files\/2022\/05\/Rockpoint-sunset-edited.jpg 2006w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/files\/2022\/05\/Rockpoint-sunset-edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/files\/2022\/05\/Rockpoint-sunset-edited-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/files\/2022\/05\/Rockpoint-sunset-edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/files\/2022\/05\/Rockpoint-sunset-edited-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/files\/2022\/05\/Rockpoint-sunset-edited-1568x882.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2006px) 100vw, 2006px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend I, along with a few friends, went to enjoy some rare warm weather and enjoy the sunset at Rock Point&#8217;s Thrust Fault. As we moved toward the cliffs from North Beach, I spotted a Red-winged blackbird perched on the edge of a small marsh. I am particularly fond of these birds because of their distinct call. Further up the trail a friend and I caught the somewhat distant calls of an osprey, a sound I knew all too well l from childhood memories at my grandmother&#8217;s river.  The final species we spotted were a few Mallards. at first, we watched a pair of females calmly swimming past us. A bit later another single female swam past. These three eventually intercepted one another and began to fly at one another quite aggressively. I hadn&#8217;t seen this kind of behavior from female mallards before and found it quite interesting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I, along with a few friends, went to enjoy some rare warm weather and enjoy the sunset at Rock Point&#8217;s Thrust Fault. As we moved toward the cliffs from North Beach, I spotted a Red-winged blackbird perched on the edge of a small marsh. I am particularly fond of these birds because of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/2022\/05\/01\/bioblitz-bananza\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bioblitz Bananza&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"sjbillin","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/author\/sjbillin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/sjbillin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}