{"id":9670,"date":"2016-03-15T14:28:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T18:56:45","slug":"spring-has-sprung-the-grass-has-riz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2016\/03\/15\/spring-has-sprung-the-grass-has-riz\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring has sprung, the grass has riz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Jackie Lindsey<\/a>, Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/a><\/h3>\n

We are just breaths\u00a0away from the\u00a0first day of spring, and the\u00a0wildlife of Moss Landing, CA is in a flurry.\u00a0High above the the heads of kayakers and sea otters in Elkhorn Slough, birds have started constructing their condos\u00a0in the tall eucalyptus trees that line the shore of this estuary. Egrets, cormorants, and herons are gathering supplies and strength to begin chick rearing. \u00a0In just a few weeks these silent efforts will be rewarded with the arrival of fluffy chicks, clamoring for their next meal. These particular condos have reached surprisingly high densities in past years, nearing 200 nests!<\/p>\n

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Great Egret (Ardea alba<\/em>) nest with three chicks at the in the Morro Bay Heron Rookery. 21 May 2009. Photo by Michael \"Mike\" L. Baird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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  By Jackie Lindsey, Vertebrate Ecology Lab We are just breaths\u00a0away from the\u00a0first day of spring, and the\u00a0wildlife of Moss Landing, CA is in a flurry.\u00a0High above the the heads of kayakers and sea otters in Elkhorn Slough, birds have started constructing their condos\u00a0in the tall eucalyptus trees that line the shore of this estuary. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":9800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[199,310],"class_list":["post-9670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-open-house","tag-vertebrate-ecology-lab"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20913,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions\/20913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}