{"id":109,"date":"2009-09-04T11:32:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/09\/vaux-swift-watch-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:13:05","slug":"vaux-swift-watch-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/2009\/09\/vaux-swift-watch-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaux Swift Watch 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with o chem, but watching 5000+ small birds fly<br \/>\ninto a chimney (they sleep there) is one of the most fascinating and FREE displays of<br \/>\nurban wildlife you will ever see and it coincides with the start of the<br \/>\nschool year. I try to catch it at least a few times every year and I<br \/>\nwill be there tonight. Here&#8217;s some helpful info for swift viewing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Directions: <\/b>The chimney is located at the west end (hilly side) of Chapman Elementary school. The school is located next to a park on NW 25th between NW Pettygrove &amp; NW Raleigh. After you see the swifts, you can walk over to NW 23rd for dessert &#8211; many many establishments will be happy to serve you between 7-9 PM. <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=chapman+elementary+school,+portland,+or&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=34.038806,79.013672&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=45.533988,-122.703209&amp;spn=0.003675,0.009645&amp;z=17\"><b>Map<\/b><\/a><br \/><b>Best viewing:<\/b> Get there about 20 minutes before sunset and watch the birds collect and feed. It takes awhile for all of them to go into the chimney so you&#8217;ll be there after sunset (full moon tonite). Most people watch from the hillside on NW Pettygrove.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audubonportland.org\/local-birding\/swiftwatch\/swifts_landing\"><b>Portland Audobon web info<\/b><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing to do with o chem, but watching 5000+ small birds fly into a chimney (they sleep there) is one of the most fascinating and FREE displays of urban wildlife you will ever see and it coincides with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/5186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chem201202\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}