{"id":24684,"date":"2025-09-11T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:39:20","slug":"killdeer-charadrius-vociferus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24684","title":{"rendered":"Killdeer (<em>Charadrius vociferus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24686\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250911_026382.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24686\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250911_026382-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250911_026382-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250911_026382-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250911_026382-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250911_026382-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/img_20250911_026382.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Killdeer (<em>Charadrius vociferus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We walked at Redgate Park this afternoon. This used to be the municipal Redgate Golf Course and the paths are the cart paths from that. There are some nice ponds, and that&#8217;s where we saw this kildeer (<em>Charadrius vociferus<\/em>). Other than that, we didn&#8217;t see too much, but it&#8217;s a nice place with a few nice specimen trees. The fairways are mostly overgrown with thistle and other weeds, but that&#8217;s a good habitat for birds. We heard a lot more than we saw and those we saw were mostly just shapes flitting around in the brush and not easily identified. But this fellow (or lady, I have no idea) was out in the open and let us get close enough for a good view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked at Redgate Park this afternoon. This used to be the municipal Redgate Golf Course and the paths are the cart paths from that. There are some nice ponds, and that&#8217;s where we saw this kildeer (Charadrius vociferus). Other than that, we didn&#8217;t see too much, but it&#8217;s a nice place with a few &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24684\">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":[61,3773,3772,3771,3774],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684"}],"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=24684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24687,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions\/24687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}