{"id":546,"date":"2012-05-28T17:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T21:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/?p=546"},"modified":"2014-02-15T18:20:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T22:20:50","slug":"spring-outing-to-speyside-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/spring-outing-to-speyside-area","title":{"rendered":"Spring outing to Speyside area"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-547\" style=\"width: 156px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bluebird.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-547\" title=\"bluebird\" src=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/bluebird.png\" alt=\"Bluebird\" width=\"156\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had a great outing that spring day. We started at my house in Speyside where we heard a Scarlet Tanager but did not see him, then saw a resident Indigo Bunting. We went to Town Line Road, seeing a Mallard on the pond, which is now very overgrown. Farther down we encountered a very large patch of Yellow Lady\u2019s Slipper, a plant I have not seen in this area before. We also saw Rose-breasted Grosbeak.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_548\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-548\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/porcupine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-548\" title=\"porcupine\" src=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/porcupine.png\" alt=\"Porcupine\" width=\"196\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porcupine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We went over to the corner of Sixth Line and 15 Side Road where we had a wonderful time watching nesting Bluebirds, and we located 2 Porcupines and a Raccoon sleeping in three separate trees, and watched a Meadow Vole dash across the road. We also saw Eastern Kingbird, Indigo Bunting, Alder\/Willow Flycatcher, Song Sparrow, Northern Flicker and Blue Jay.<\/p>\n<p>We then went to Third Line south of 15 where we had fun watching a field full of Bobolinks, plus a few Eastern Meadowlarks, Red-winged Blackbirds, a Savannah Sparrow, and Barn Swallows. At the Scotch Block Reservoir we saw a lone Painted Turtle, many Northern Orioles, Northern Yellowthroat, Yellow Warbler, Cedar Waxwing, American Redstart and Warbling Vireo. The only water birds were Canada Geese, but a Great Blue Heron did fly overhead, as did a Red-tailed Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Valerie Dobson, Jim and Joan Hughes, and their sharp-eyed guest Christine Rumble for coming along!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span>by Fiona Reid<\/span><br \/>\n<span>President, Halton\/North Peel Naturalist Club<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a great outing that spring day. We started at my house in Speyside where we heard a Scarlet Tanager but did not see him, then saw a resident Indigo Bunting. We went to Town Line Road, seeing a Mallard on the pond, which is now very overgrown. Farther down we encountered a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/spring-outing-to-speyside-area\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spring outing to Speyside area<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,8],"tags":[107,66,69],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reid-author","category-outings","tag-birding","tag-field-report","tag-reid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gne2-8O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","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=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}