{"id":8493,"date":"2020-11-20T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2020-11-23T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T04:23:31","slug":"a-good-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/11\/a-good-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A good day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I finally had an entire day that I could spend outdoors. I went birding along Charleston Slough, in Baylands Nature Preserve on the Palo Alto \/ Mountain View border. Towards the end of my walk, I saw a man standing at the edge of Shoreline Pond and looking intently into a birding scope, and asked what he was looking at. &#8220;Barrow&#8217;s,&#8221; he said, meaning Barrow&#8217;s Goldeneye, a relatively uncommon bird. And there it was, swimming along with a small group of closely related Common Goldeneyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Barrows-and-Common-Goldeneye-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Barrows-and-Common-Goldeneye-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Barrows-and-Common-Goldeneye-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Barrows-and-Common-Goldeneye-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Barrows-and-Common-Goldeneye-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Barrows-and-Common-Goldeneye-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Barrows-and-Common-Goldeneye.jpg 1569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Barrow&#8217;s Goldeneye on the left, Common Goldeneye on the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Thanks for that,&#8221; I said. &#8220;That makes sixty species today, which is a big day for me.&#8221; (Real birders aim for over a hundred species in a day.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We chatted for a bit, but the sun was setting, and he packed up and headed home. I slowly made my way back to my car, and on the way saw another five species of birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent all day outdoors. I saw a lot of birds. I mostly forgot about the pandemic. All in all, it was a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally had an entire day that I could spend outdoors. I went birding along Charleston Slough, in Baylands Nature Preserve on the Palo Alto \/ Mountain View border. Towards the end of my walk, I saw a man standing at the edge of Shoreline Pond and looking intently into a birding scope, and asked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/11\/a-good-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A good day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-8493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-palo-alto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8495,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions\/8495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}