{"id":99981,"date":"2018-05-03T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/half-day-birding-tours-provide-taste-of-birders-fare\/"},"modified":"2018-05-03T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:20:15","slug":"half-day-birding-tours-provide-taste-of-birders-fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/half-day-birding-tours-provide-taste-of-birders-fare\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-day birding tours provide taste of birder\u2019s fare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2018 Ute Mountain\/Mesa Verde Birding Festival offers several half-day tours for birders who want to participate but cannot devote a full day to birding from May 10-23.<\/p>\n<p>Participants travel by van with expert birders as guides to Fozzie\u2019s Farm, a new birding site for the festival that combines habitats of fields, pastures, ponds, wetlands and windbreak trees. The Summit Ridge and Lake Tour tallied 75 species during the 2017 festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday outing is designed for birders including preteens and adults.<\/p>\n<p>The Mother\u2019s Day Birding Brunch offers a gourmet brunch at a scenic private home. A few hours of birding in and near Mancos for cavity nesters and new arrivals of migrant species make this a significant tour.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit www.utemountainmesaverdebirdingfestival.com or call the Cortez Cultural Center, 970-565-1151.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 Ute Mountain\/Mesa Verde Birding Festival offers several half-day tours for birders who want to participate but cannot devote a full day to birding from May 10-23. Participants travel by van with expert birders as guides to Fozzie\u2019s Farm, a new birding site for the festival that combines habitats of fields, pastures, ponds, wetlands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-99981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99981"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=99981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}