{"id":2894,"date":"2022-10-31T07:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2022-10-31T07:53:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:53:05","slug":"theyre-baaaack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/10\/31\/theyre-baaaack\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Baaaack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/173113238\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surprise, Surprise\u2026First Snowy Owl of the 2022-23 Season on Oct 28th. Although it certainly seems a bit early but it\u2019s not the earliest I\u2019ve stumbled across one\u2026that one being October 25th in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Impossible to say just why the early arrival\u2026.perhaps the lack of lemmings which is their main food source in the Tundra and owls are on the move South in search of food.<br \/>\nFrom what I understand lemming population goes in cycles and are the key factor in the owl numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Every year around this time I ask myself\u2026is this the year for a Snowy Owl Irruption ?<br \/>\nWill have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise, Surprise\u2026First Snowy Owl of the 2022-23 Season on Oct 28th. Although it certainly seems a bit early but it\u2019s not the earliest I\u2019ve stumbled across one\u2026that one being October 25th in 2015. Impossible to say just why the early arrival\u2026.perhaps the lack of lemmings which is their main food source in the Tundra and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}