{"id":3529,"date":"2013-06-23T01:06:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T01:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2013-06-23T11:47:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T11:47:02","slug":"birding-at-van-cortlandt-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3529","title":{"rendered":"Birding at Van Cortlandt Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the third time (week) I went with the bird watcher group of Van Cortlandt Park. <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/VanCortLandtPark-Birds-Checklist.pdf\">VanCortLandtPark Birds Checklist <\/a>was given to everyone. With this list, one is supposed to find all the birds, which are a lot, in this park.<\/p>\n<p>I've created a new category, Ornithology, for this journal.<\/p>\n<p>Today, while birding, a red bird flew by us and our guide Joseph said \"Oh, shit!\", which I later learned that he thought it was a Scarlet Tanager, which is rare. One of us responded comically, \"that's a shit bird\". I couldn't help myself and chuckled. It is likely a Northern Cardinal (redbird), which is the only common in the area. The other rare red bird is Summer Tanager, the rarest of them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the third time (week) I went with the bird watcher group of Van Cortlandt Park. VanCortLandtPark Birds Checklist was given to everyone. With this list, one is supposed to find all the birds, which are a lot, in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=3529\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ornithology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}