{"id":2935,"date":"2024-08-11T16:46:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T20:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2024-08-11T16:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T20:46:20","slug":"august-2024-from-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/?p=2935","title":{"rendered":"August 2024 from the President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shorebird migration seems to be underway. Recently folks have seen a Baird\u2019s Sandpiper at the farm pond along White Church Road. Subscribe to eBird alerts to be notified about Franklin (or other) County rarities so you know what\u2019s in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Terri Kochert reports that a woman who sets up at the Chambersburg Farmers\u2019 Market makes tote bags from birdseed bags. What a cool idea! You might want to make your own or give your bags to her to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Greer reminds us to save the date for the PA Adopt-A-Highway clean up scheduled for Saturday, September 28 at 9 AM. Supplies will be provided. Sign up with John: 443-255-8871, jngreer@aol.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2024\/bird-olympics-fastest-peregrine-falcon-hummingbird-duck-pigeon\/?itid=hp_health-science_p026_f006\">article <\/a>about &#8220;Bird Olympics&#8221; in the Washington Post, on a race of birds flying horizontally, the Mallard would win, with a speed of about 103 mph. While we often think of the Peregrine Falcon&#8217;s fast dive (at about 242 mph), it&#8217;s the Mallard that flies fastest horizontally. Who knew?! In terms of flying quietly, the Barn Owl is hard to beat. And an Ostrich could outrun any human in the 100 m dash &#8211; finishing in just 6.04 seconds. Birds are pretty amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you haven&#8217;t already received it, keep an eye out in your snail mail for our annual fundraising letter and the 2024-2025 Activities List. We depend on and appreciate your financial support. Good birding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorebird migration seems to be underway. Recently folks have seen a Baird\u2019s Sandpiper at the farm pond along White Church Road. Subscribe to eBird alerts to be notified about Franklin (or other) County rarities so you know what\u2019s in the area. Terri Kochert reports that a woman who sets up at the Chambersburg Farmers\u2019 Market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,40],"tags":[52,39],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monthly-message","category-outreach","tag-birds","tag-donate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conococheagueaudubon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}