{"id":255,"date":"2010-03-28T09:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/03\/28\/100328_buzzardvideo\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T07:29:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:29:21","slug":"100328_buzzardvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/03\/28\/100328_buzzardvideo\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzards+Fort Stockton = Swallows+Capistrano?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">One of the presumed harbingers of spring in West Texas is the return of roosting buzzards. If that&#8217;s true, then Fort Stockton has seen its last cold snap for the season, as evidenced by this iPhone video I shot last evening from my parents&#8217; backyard:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RbPuUls8VhA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is just a fraction of the flock of scavengers that would eventually come to roost in the Afghan pines and live oak trees of the neighborhood. My guess is that there were 100-200 of the big birds.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re actually quite graceful, floating silently and effortlessly in the stiff breezes that persisted until nightfall. The only unsettling thing about them being directly overhead was&#8230;well, I&#8217;ll leave it to your imagination.<\/p>\n<p><i>The voices you hear at the end of the video recounting an encounter of a motorcycle with a buzzard are those of my brother and his wife.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the presumed harbingers of spring in West Texas is the return of roosting buzzards. If that&#8217;s true, then Fort Stockton has seen its last cold snap for the season, as evidenced by this iPhone video I shot last evening from my parents&#8217; backyard: This is just a fraction of the flock of scavengers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/03\/28\/100328_buzzardvideo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buzzards+Fort Stockton = Swallows+Capistrano?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-west-texas","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9822,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/9822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}