{"id":569,"date":"2009-01-18T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:47:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:47:25","slug":"collared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Collared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/collared.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292471572061856178\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/collared-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I&#8217;d rather it be a band on a nicer bird that I&#8217;m reporting, never having done this before, but I suppose I should think instead of the scientific or research value. How an understanding of this one mute swan&#8217;s behavior might help to protect less beautiful, but more endangered waterfowl species.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1165\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Click<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> for a prior rant on mute swans.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been bothered to notice mute swans on my local rivers lately. Every spot with open water that I visited today had a bunch of them. There were quite a few sleeping on the ice mixed in among the gulls, too. At least they&#8217;re mostly civil to the other waterfowl at this time of year and tame enough (big, too!) to pose for my camera.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite complaint while chasing ducks is that the prettiest ones are the first to fly away. Not so with a mute swan.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else ever reported a banded bird? Do they really send a certificate, like they promise? Anyone else find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwrc.usgs.gov\/BBL\/homepage\/recwobnd.cfm\">this form<\/a> long and overly intimidating? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d rather it be a band on a nicer bird that I&#8217;m reporting, never having done this before, but I suppose I should think instead of the scientific or research value. How an understanding of this one mute swan&#8217;s behavior might help to protect less beautiful, but more endangered waterfowl species. Click for a prior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=569\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collared<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}