{"id":74462,"date":"2015-06-09T09:41:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74462"},"modified":"2015-06-11T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:58:26","slug":"birding-festival-jun-10-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=74462","title":{"rendered":"Birding Festival June 10-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Birdinglogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-74621\" alt=\"Birdinglogo\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Birdinglogo.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/birdwatching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55784\" alt=\"birdwatching\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/birdwatching.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>Carrington \u00a0(CSi) Bird spotters from around the country are joining local residents at the 13th Annual Potholes &amp; Prairie Birding Festival June 10-14 in Carrington.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is expecting 60 visitors to join the locals.<\/p>\n<p>In Carrington there will be seminars and social events with guided bus tours to include Birds of the Drift Prairie, Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge and Hawks Nest Ridge, Horsehead Lake Kidder County, Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Stutsman County.<\/p>\n<p>There will be expert guides to instruct the watchers on what to look for, and scout the best sites ahead of time, allowing birders more time to view and listen.<\/p>\n<p>Birders are on the bus at 5 a.m. to make sure they are out when they can hear the birds singing their morning songs at sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>The festival coordinates with the American Birding Association and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It is not a birding competition event but does attract serious birders.<\/p>\n<p>The fee is $395 for full registration or $135 per day. The festival is supported by Jamestown Tourism, Carrington Community Development, Convention and Visitors Bureau. For information call (888) 921-2473, email infobirdingdrives.com mailto:infobirdingdrives.com or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdingdrivesdakota.com\/\">www.birdingdrivesdakota.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrington \u00a0(CSi) Bird spotters from around the country are joining local residents at the 13th Annual Potholes &amp; Prairie Birding Festival June 10-14 in Carrington. The festival is expecting 60 visitors to join the locals. In Carrington there will be seminars and social events with guided bus tours to include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74462"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74660,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74462\/revisions\/74660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}