{"id":570,"date":"2015-02-21T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T17:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2015-02-21T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T17:36:54","slug":"birding-the-big-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/birding-the-big-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding the Big Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been super cold here in New Jersey the past few weeks. \u00a0Yesterday started out at -5\u00b0F, our coldest morning so far. \u00a0Today was barely better at 2\u00b0F. \u00a0All the water in the county is pretty much frozen, except for open spots on the Delaware River. \u00a0Most of the geese and other waterfowl have headed to the river, a few gulls are still moving back and forth but otherwise bird movements seem about as frozen as the weather.<\/p>\n

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Sparrow Slick–area I keep dug out so I can add seed for the ground-feeding birds.<\/p><\/div>\n

After picking up the miracle Brown Creeper, there haven’t been any new birds recently, but I’m managing to get my 20 Bird Minimum Daily Requirement each day–though it’s getting harder and usually taking some time in the afternoons as well as mornings to pull it off.<\/p>\n

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Hairy Woodpecker in the snow<\/p><\/div>\n

Tonight we’re bracing for another 4-8 inches of forecast snow, plus freezing rain. \u00a0I’ve only just recently been able to get up and down my snowy driveway. \u00a0Hopefully this new snow will drive something else my way–still waiting for redpolls that have been reported sparsely elsewhere across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been super cold here in New Jersey the past few weeks. \u00a0Yesterday started out at -5\u00b0F, our coldest morning so far. \u00a0Today was barely better at 2\u00b0F. \u00a0All the water in the county is pretty much frozen, except for … Continue reading →<\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Blr3-9c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}