{"id":1244,"date":"2014-05-19T22:51:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T02:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2014-05-20T13:23:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:23:37","slug":"hnpnc-installs-bird-boxes-at-scotsdale-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/hnpnc-installs-bird-boxes-at-scotsdale-farm","title":{"rendered":"HNPNC installs bird boxes at Scotsdale Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1245\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/birdboxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1245 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/birdboxes-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"birdboxes\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Jeff Cassidy, Emily Dobson, Bill McIlveen, Ramona Dobson, Ian Jarvie, Fiona Reid, Sandy Gillians, Kim Dobson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Several members of the Halton\/North Peel Naturalist Club met this morning to install bird boxes around the hay meadows and old fields of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsdalefarm.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Scotsdale Farm<\/a> in Halton Hills.\u00a0 The fields are home to Eastern Bluebirds, several species of swallows, and threatened grassland birds such as Bobolink and Eastern Meadowlark.<\/p>\n<p>Several more boxes were installed on the grounds of St. Alban&#8217;s church along the Credit River in Glen Williams last week.<\/p>\n<p>HNPNC raised funds for the bird boxes\u00a0 through donations from attendees of a reptile workshop held January 12th this year. Many thanks to HNPNC member Emily Dobson (<span class=\"userContent\">who is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdscanada.org\/research\/speciesatrisk\/chsw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario SwiftWatch<\/a> Coordinator for Halton) for moving this project forward, and to Kim Dobson for\u00a0 building the boxes and supervising the installations.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several members of the Halton\/North Peel Naturalist Club met this morning to install bird boxes around the hay meadows and old fields of Scotsdale Farm in Halton Hills.\u00a0 The fields are home to Eastern Bluebirds, several species of swallows, and threatened grassland birds such as Bobolink and Eastern Meadowlark. Several more boxes were installed on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/hnpnc-installs-bird-boxes-at-scotsdale-farm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HNPNC installs bird boxes at Scotsdale Farm<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"HNPNC  members installed bird boxes at Scotsdale Farm today http:\/\/wp.me\/p4gne2-k4","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gne2-k4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}