{"id":6043,"date":"2015-08-24T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2015-08-24T10:01:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T14:01:48","slug":"take-5-incoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-incoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Incoming!"},"content":{"rendered":"

These stunning photos of birds coming in for a landing, taken by past participants of our Photo Contest<\/a>, show the beauty and complexity of bird wings.<\/p>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Richard Alvarnaz<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2013

2013 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Greg Saulmon<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2012

2012 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Frank Vitale<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2012

2012 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 David Ennis<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Sherry Leffert<\/p><\/div>\n

We’d love to see your best photos. Enter our 2015 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These stunning photos of birds coming in for a landing, taken by past participants of our Photo Contest, show the beauty and complexity of bird wings. We’d love to see your best photos. Enter our 2015 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-5","tag-birds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-1zt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10602,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-caption-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":6043,"position":0},"title":"Take 5: Caption This!","author":"Ryan D.","date":"February 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's play \"Caption That Photo\"! 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