{"id":7182,"date":"2017-06-09T20:11:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T00:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7182"},"modified":"2017-06-09T20:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T00:14:57","slug":"good-birding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7182","title":{"rendered":"Good Birding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7177\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7177\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK-1024x732.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK-1024x732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK-1200x857.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK.jpg 1933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Every once in a while, my\u00a0best bird isn&#8217;t a bird at all. I spent the afternoon after work today birding at <a href=\"http:\/\/gonehikin.blogspot.com\/2015\/06\/goosepond-south-and-goosepond-mountain.html\">Goosepond South<\/a>, a spot that I&#8217;ve never been to before. Towards the end of an uneventful and not overly\u00a0birdy hike, I came upon this mink and it made my day. I&#8217;ve never really caught more than a glimpse of a mink, but\u00a0in this case I was sitting still for quite some time and the mink did not appear to know I was there and appeared on the far shore of the stream. It then actually swam closer to me before disappearing into the grasses on the near side of the stream&#8217;s edge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=7178\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7178\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7178\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK2-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/060917-MINK2.jpg 1984w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, my\u00a0best bird isn&#8217;t a bird at all. I spent the afternoon after work today birding at Goosepond South, a spot that I&#8217;ve never been to before. Towards the end of an uneventful and not overly\u00a0birdy hike, I came upon this mink and it made my day. I&#8217;ve never really caught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=7182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Birding?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1RQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7185,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions\/7185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}