{"id":714,"date":"2013-03-27T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/?p=714"},"modified":"2013-03-27T21:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T03:25:04","slug":"sandhill-crane-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/2013\/03\/sandhill-crane-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandhill Crane Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Each March and April, half a million Sandhill cranes migrate through a stretch of Nebraska west of our house. Our family sat in a blind at the Rowe Sanctuary last night and watched several thousand of these cranes fly back to roost on the Platte River. Here are a few pictures and a video from the outing.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=09D_N0W0rjM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=09D_N0W0rjM<\/a>\n<figure id=\"attachment_715\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-715\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/cranes2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-715\" title=\"cranes2\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/cranes2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full Moon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/cranes3.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-716\" title=\"cranes3\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/cranes3-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silhouette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/cranes4.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-717\" title=\"cranes4\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/cranes4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-718\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/eagle.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-718\" title=\"eagle\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/eagle-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Predator on the River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-722\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/bald-eagle2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-722\" title=\"bald eagle2\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/220\/2013\/03\/bald-eagle2-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bald Eagle taking off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each March and April, half a million Sandhill cranes migrate through a stretch of Nebraska west of our house. Our family sat in a blind at the Rowe Sanctuary last night and watched several thousand of these cranes fly back to roost on the Platte River. Here are a few pictures and a video from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1069,1071,1067,90,1074,30,1068,1066,13,1072,1075,1065,1064,1070,1073,29],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-april","tag-bald-eagle","tag-crane-migration","tag-ducks","tag-full-moon","tag-man-on-the-run","tag-march","tag-migration","tag-nebraska","tag-photography","tag-platte-river","tag-rowe-sanctuary","tag-sandhill-cranes","tag-waterfowl","tag-wildlife-photography","tag-zeke-pipher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/zekepipher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}