{"id":714,"date":"2014-01-13T01:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/?p=714"},"modified":"2014-02-15T18:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T22:07:54","slug":"field-report-sam-smith-park-november-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/field-report-sam-smith-park-november-16th","title":{"rendered":"Field Report: Sam Smith Park, November 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>by Fiona Reid &#8211; President<\/h6>\n<figure id=\"attachment_445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/longtailed-duck.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-445\" alt=\"Long-tailed Duck (Fiona Reid_\" src=\"http:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/longtailed-duck.png\" width=\"288\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-tailed Duck (Fiona Reid_<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our party of two had a great outing to this urban park. It is closer than Leslie Street Spit, with a lot less walking and some really good wetland and lakeshore habitats. Our first bird of interest was a Gray Catbird near a small pond. On the pond shore we also saw a young Black-crowned Night Heron and some Shoveler and Gadwall. Up ahead a Hooded Merganser caught our eye. On the lake were many ducks and grebes, and we had excellent views of a nice male Harlequin Duck! On our way back we saw many signs of Beaver (we had already seen a Muskrat swimming) and then we saw a Northern Mockingbird that has been residing in the area for some time, according to local birders. I hope we can return with more club members in future.<\/p>\n<p>Our species list for the day is below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/li>\n<li>Northern Cardinal<\/li>\n<li>Blue Jay<\/li>\n<li>American Black Duck<\/li>\n<li>Bufflehead<\/li>\n<li>Common Goldeneye<\/li>\n<li>Gadwall<\/li>\n<li>Harlequin Duck<\/li>\n<li>Hooded Merganser<\/li>\n<li>Lesser Scaup<\/li>\n<li>Long-tailed Duck<\/li>\n<li>Mallard<\/li>\n<li>Mute Swan<\/li>\n<li>Red-breasted Merganser<\/li>\n<li>Black-capped Chickadee<\/li>\n<li>Redhead<\/li>\n<li>Horned Grebe<\/li>\n<li>Gray Catbird<\/li>\n<li>Northern Mockingbird<\/li>\n<li>Downy Woodpecker<\/li>\n<li>Red-necked Grebe<\/li>\n<li>Tree Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>American Goldfinch<\/li>\n<li>American Robin<\/li>\n<li>Mourning Dove<\/li>\n<li>Northern Shoveler<\/li>\n<li>Red-tailed Hawk (on way back)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Fiona Reid &#8211; President Our party of two had a great outing to this urban park. It is closer than Leslie Street Spit, with a lot less walking and some really good wetland and lakeshore habitats. Our first bird of interest was a Gray Catbird near a small pond. On the pond shore we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/field-report-sam-smith-park-november-16th\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Field Report: Sam Smith Park, November 16th<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[55,9,8],"tags":[107,66,69],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reid-author","category-birding","category-outings","tag-birding","tag-field-report","tag-reid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gne2-bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnpnc.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}