{"id":1849,"date":"2008-03-21T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/03\/21\/sandhill-crane-cam\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T10:54:04","slug":"sandhill-crane-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/sandhill-crane-cam\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Crane Cam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5c7972ef2c4cd7f4b905bc14ee577020-cranes.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-5c7972ef2c4cd7f4b905bc14ee577020-cranes.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Well, it is migration season for many birds.  The other day as we drove north to the cabin, we came across a flock of what I&#8217;m pretty sure were tundra swans resting on their long journey north.  We are lucky to spend a lot of time in a major flyway for migratory birds, and we get to see lots of them.Audubon and National Geographic have installed a web cam on Nebradka&#8217;s Platte River in the Audubon Rowe Sanctuary, through which you can observe sandhill cranes (<em>Grus canadensis<\/em>).  Look in the early morning and evening, <a href=\"http:\/\/video.nationalgeographic.com\/video\/cranecam\/\">at this URL<\/a>.<!--more-->I&#8217;m looking right now and can see that it is a bit windy, and it looks like a nice place, but I&#8217;m not sure if I see any cranes.  A few blackbirds fly by the camera now and then.Oh wait, there&#8217;s a crane, I see one!  No, no, sorry, just a white cap.  There are some funny looking birds with white heads and I can see some bird watchers in the distance looking back at the web cam.OK, well, I&#8217;ll check back later&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdlife.org\/news\/news\/2008\/03\/Crane_Cam.html\">[source and more info here]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is migration season for many birds. The other day as we drove north to the cabin, we came across a flock of what I&#8217;m pretty sure were tundra swans resting on their long journey north. We are lucky to spend a lot of time in a major flyway for migratory birds, and we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/sandhill-crane-cam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sandhill Crane Cam<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-tP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}