{"id":24637,"date":"2025-08-09T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T19:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24637"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:58:35","slug":"mckee-beshers-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24637","title":{"rendered":"McKee-Beshers Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; clear:both;\">\n<div style=\"margin-right:8px;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_24639\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250809_025973.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24639\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250809_025973-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24639\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-tailed Hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24640\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250809_025991.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250809_025991-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24640\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Wood-Pewee (<em>Contopus virens<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24641\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250809_026008.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24641\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250809_026008-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Green Heron (Butorides virescens)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24641\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>)<br \/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>We had a nice walk at McKee-Beshers today. We first walked to fields 3 and 4, which were planted with sunflowers this year. It&#8217;s a bit of a walk, almost 7\u20448 of a mile, getting nearly to the river. The two big sunflower fields were well past peak bloom. The sunflower heads were there but almost all turned downwards. We heard quite a few birds but didn&#8217;t see all that many. We heard a lot of goldfinches and indigo buntings, as well as cardinals, but we also heard a yellow-billed cuckoo, which was a treat. I&#8217;d have been surprised if we had actually seen that. I got this photo of a red-tailed hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>) circling overhead and a few nice photos of this eastern wood-pewee (<em>Contopus virens<\/em>). We returned to the car and then want to the shallow ponds at the western end of Hunting Quarter Road where we saw this green heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a nice walk at McKee-Beshers today. We first walked to fields 3 and 4, which were planted with sunflowers this year. It&#8217;s a bit of a walk, almost 7\u20448 of a mile, getting nearly to the river. The two big sunflower fields were well past peak bloom. The sunflower heads were there but &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[61,1072,1071,3191,3192,3229,3193,345,62,3230,1069],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24642,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24637\/revisions\/24642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}