{"id":710,"date":"2011-04-18T20:27:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T03:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/?p=710"},"modified":"2011-12-26T12:08:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T20:08:04","slug":"its-goslings-its-spring-really-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/its-goslings-its-spring-really-spring","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Goslings! It&#8217;s Spring &#8211; Really Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"gray wolf productions goslings\" border=\"2\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/gray-wolf-productions-goslings.JPG\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you live in Portland &#8211; winter can be yukky wet [at least for me] and it&#39;s not great when winter weather keeps on into Spring.<\/p>\n<p>BUT &#8211; when you see the first few batches of goslings &#8211; you sort of forget the yukky stuff and start counting babies. This is a neighborhood activity and we worry when some disappear and are happy when all of them make it to goose-adulthood!<\/p>\n<p>Geese are very protective parents and you&#39;ll see one telling another to stay away from &quot;MY&quot; babies!<\/p>\n<p>Next should come the baby mallards but they seem not to have produced many in the last few years. And they are not great parents <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\":(\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/plugins\/fckeditor-for-wordpress-plugin\/ckeditor\/plugins\/smiley\/images\/sad_smile.gif\" title=\":(\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cU7DCekQSPk?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What makes it REALLY Spring for you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you live in Portland &#8211; winter can be yukky wet [at least for me] and it&#39;s not great when winter weather keeps on into Spring. BUT &#8211; when you see the first few batches of goslings &#8211; you sort of forget the yukky stuff and start counting babies. This is a neighborhood activity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[20,30,97,61,40,57,98,99,33,60,100],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-columbia-river","tag-geese","tag-goslings","tag-human-interest","tag-mallards","tag-moorages","tag-river","tag-spring","tag-video","tag-water","tag-water-birds","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}