{"id":9230,"date":"2022-05-06T21:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T01:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9230"},"modified":"2023-07-24T18:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T22:20:24","slug":"bank-swallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/05\/bank-swallows\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Swallows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The highlight of a trip to Ano Nuevo State Park is supposed to be the sight of hundreds of Elephant Seals. But when Carol and I visited the park today, what I enjoyed most was seeing Bank Swallows building nests in a bluff high above the beach. I watched through binoculars as the swallows whizzed around the bluff, and in and out of their nesting holes. Every once in a while, a small shower of sand would come out of one of the next holes, presumably because one of the birds was doing some excavation work inside the hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040720-1024x577.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040720-1024x577.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040720-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040720-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040720-1536x865.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040720-1200x676.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/P1040720.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>A Bank Swallow leaving a nesting hole, while a second one approaches the hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlight of a trip to Ano Nuevo State Park is supposed to be the sight of hundreds of Elephant Seals. But when Carol and I visited the park today, what I enjoyed most was seeing Bank Swallows building nests in a bluff high above the beach. I watched through binoculars as the swallows whizzed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/05\/bank-swallows\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bank Swallows&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[264,995],"class_list":["post-9230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-birding","tag-swallows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230","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=9230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9232,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9230\/revisions\/9232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}