{"id":600,"date":"2010-11-12T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T20:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billreid.violet-flame.ca\/?p=600"},"modified":"2010-11-12T20:59:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T20:59:44","slug":"mississippi-jog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"MISSISSIPPI JOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to Yellowstone, I stopped over on the upper Mississippi for several days. Jogging along the river bank one morning, I suddenly noticed a flock of Snow Buntings. I raced back for the camera and fortunately they were still there and quite approachable. What you see below is a first winter female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SNOW-BUNTING.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-601\" title=\"SNOW BUNTING\" src=\"http:\/\/billreid.violet-flame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SNOW-BUNTING-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SNOW-BUNTING-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SNOW-BUNTING-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SNOW-BUNTING.jpg 1338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good thing I did make the effort, for not only did I get the best Snow Bunting shots of my life, I also spotted a pair of Horned Grebes working the shoreline.\u00a0 You just never know what a jog will turn up!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-602\" title=\"HORNED GREBE1\" src=\"http:\/\/billreid.violet-flame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE1-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE1.jpg 1526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-603\" title=\"HORNED GREBE\" src=\"http:\/\/billreid.violet-flame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE-1024x798.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/HORNED-GREBE.jpg 1332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to Yellowstone, I stopped over on the upper Mississippi for several days. Jogging along the river bank one morning, I suddenly noticed a flock of Snow Buntings. I raced back for the camera and fortunately they were still there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=600\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-photography","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}