{"id":145,"date":"2012-02-11T18:10:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2012-02-11T18:10:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T18:10:16","slug":"for-the-love-of-michigan-nature-photography-by-ike-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/2012\/02\/11\/for-the-love-of-michigan-nature-photography-by-ike-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of Michigan Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Michigan Birds &#8211; For the Love of Michigan<\/h1>\n<p>Michigan is a profusion of many species of birds, bird rookery&#8217;s, habitats and a migration hot spots for many other non-resident birds that use Michigan as a rest-stop as they make their annual journey from one state to their over wintering vacation spot.<\/p>\n<p>I happened to be lucky enough one day (while visiting Erie MetroPark) to get a photo of a Ross Goose, a Canadian northern bird that paid a quick rare visit to Michigan on it&#8217;s\u00a0migratory\u00a0journey to California. The Ross Goose seemed quite at home as it co-mingled among a gaggle of native Michigan Birds.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_146\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?attachment_id=146\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-146\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146 \" title=\"Ross Goose - Nature Photography by Ike Austin\" src=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Ross-Goose-Nature-Photography-by-Ike-Austin-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michigan Birds - Nature Photography by Ike Austin\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross Goose<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nature Photograpy That Brings Therapy to the Soul \u2013 I hope these photos serve your health the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>Visit the photo gallery to request prints, photos or screen savers\u00a0you feel you particularly enjoy.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Nature Photography - Bird Pictures by Ike Austin\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Photography By Ike Austin<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><em>\u2014ThirdSon and the River\u2019s Sky<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Birds &#8211; For the Love of Michigan Michigan is a profusion of many species of birds, bird rookery&#8217;s, habitats and a migration hot spots for many other non-resident birds that use Michigan as a rest-stop as they make their annual journey from one state to their over wintering vacation spot. I happened to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/2012\/02\/11\/for-the-love-of-michigan-nature-photography-by-ike-austin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8,9,11],"tags":[224,380],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}