{"id":2085,"date":"2013-10-28T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2013-10-28T15:18:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T19:18:15","slug":"the-weekends-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2085","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend&#8217;s Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Saturday afternoon at the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory again. It was a slow day, only six birds total, but one of those six was a rough-legged hawk. I missed seeing by a few minutes. This was only the second time ever that a rough-legged had been observed at Pack Monadnock.<\/p>\n<p>The other highlight for the day was a golden eagle (the fourth of the season) which I did get to see at a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, another merlin alit in the same tree as the one I photographed one on Friday. \u00a0I was again able to get a decent (although highly cropped) photo.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Joan, Sally (Joan&#8217;s childhood friend who was visiting from Lewes, Delaware) and I took a &#8220;stroll&#8221; through our neighborhood. We hit all of the high points: the lake shore, Brimstone Corner, cellar holes, the beech tree with bear claw marks, and all of the nearby beaver-made wetlands. We covered about 4.5 miles in roughly 4.5 hours and a good time was had by all.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=244 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Saturday afternoon at the Pack Monadnock Raptor Observatory again. It was a slow day, only six birds total, but one of those six was a rough-legged hawk. I missed seeing by a few minutes. This was only the second time ever that a rough-legged had been observed at Pack Monadnock. The other highlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[90,4,92],"tags":[154,75,56,49],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","tag-birds","tag-chipmunks","tag-landscapes","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}