{"id":372,"date":"2007-02-27T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T01:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2011-10-29T09:10:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T16:10:01","slug":"springtime-at-the-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Springtime at the Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Horned Owl<\/p><\/div>\n

Bright green leaf-buds on many, many trees, myriads of Yellow-rumped warblers calling their schep, schep, schep<\/em> from tree after tree, and our resident Great Horned Owl beginning to sit day after day in her well-built nest\u2013all are telling us that springtime is right around the corner.\u00a0 In another month or two, winter will be but a memory, but it will be an interesting memory for those who have come and continue to come to the Refuge.<\/p>\n

Some of the highlights of what I have observed this past winter, as a volunteer at the Visitor Contact Station, are:\u00a0\u00a0 People getting used to the new fee system begun in October.\u00a0 Although many have said that the fee is a good thing, remembering to pay is still hard, especially for those who had been frequent visitors. The refuge now has an Officer\/Ranger who will help remind folks about this new fee system;\u00a0\u00a0 Seeing the Tundra Swans by the thousands come and blanket Rest Lake for several months.\u00a0 It was only a couple of weeks ago that most of these swans decided to leave for their journey north;\u00a0 Noting, just about every day, the Red Shouldered Hawk who calls a couple of acres of Ash trees along the auto tour his home;\u00a0\u00a0 Saying good-bye to the White-tailed Kite in January who pretty much had been a fixture for a number of months along the auto tour road;<\/p>\n

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Short-eared Owl<\/p><\/div>\n

Enjoying the Short-eared Owl show many evenings starting at around 4:30-5:00.\u00a0\u00a0 Cars line up for this event staying until just a few minutes before the gate closes and then hurrying to not get locked in;\u00a0\u00a0 Observing that Nutria truly are part of the food chain as Coyotes catch and really appreciate them for their meals;\u00a0\u00a0 and finally, enjoying some uncommon visitors to the refuge such as Rough-legged Hawks, Common Goldeneyes, Eurasian Wigeons, Northern Shrikes, Wilson\u2019s Phalaropes, Pileated Woodpeckers, occasional deer, and once a Red Fox.<\/p>\n

If you haven\u2019t been to the Refuge lately, it\u2019s time to come again.\u00a0 There is always a certain excitement as one starts on the auto-tour\u2013you just never know what you will see. \u00a0Come and share the excitement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bright green leaf-buds on many, many trees, myriads of Yellow-rumped warblers calling their schep, schep, schep from tree after tree, and our resident Great Horned Owl beginning to sit day after day in her well-built nest\u2013all are telling us that … 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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.windemuths.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}