{"id":15340,"date":"2022-01-29T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15340"},"modified":"2022-01-30T23:11:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T22:11:40","slug":"daily_2561_-_counting_birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/01\/29\/daily_2561_-_counting_birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2561 &#8211; counting birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2561_bird_feeder.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\nThe last weekend in January, BirdLife Sverige has <a href=\"https:\/\/vinterfaglar.se\/\">a bird counting event<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been participating for the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>This year we had an absolute invasion of Eurasian siskins during the counting weekend. The largest group swarming around and below the feeder was about thirty birds strong. We also saw goldfinches, blackbirds, and a lonely great tit.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this year is a siskin year. The Eurasian siskin is number three in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vinterfaglar.se\/stats\">aggregate statistics<\/a> as of now, and didn&#8217;t even make it into the top ten last year. According to the internet, siskins tend to stay for the winter when alder seeds are plentiful.<\/p>\n<p>Blackbirds have been the most consistent visitors at our feeder over the years &#8211; they&#8217;re the only species I&#8217;ve reported every single year. Great tits, blue tits and goldfinches are in shared second place, each seen four out of the five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last weekend in January, BirdLife Sverige has a bird counting event. I&#8217;ve been participating for the last five years. This year we had an absolute invasion of Eurasian siskins during the counting weekend. The largest group swarming around and below the feeder was about thirty birds strong. We also saw goldfinches, blackbirds, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768,779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15342,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15340\/revisions\/15342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}