{"id":8651,"date":"2020-04-19T14:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2020-10-23T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T18:11:22","slug":"we-have-winners-backyard-birds-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2020\/04\/we-have-winners-backyard-birds-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Winners! Backyard Birds Edition…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow!\u00a0 What a lot of great backyard birders and photographers we have in the Trinity family!\u00a0 Below are the winners of our First Annual (And Probably Only) Trinity Backyard Bird Contest!\u00a0 Every winner gets a copy of one of my favorite bird photos and the top entries also get an Audubon poster.\u00a0 Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For spotting the largest number of birds and wildlife:\u00a0 Will Van Camp!\u00a0 Will actually observed 9 of the 12 birds on the contest instruction sheet, plus he added observations of Osprey, Geese and Starling as well as Squirrel and Deer.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Will is a fierce hunter!\u00a0 He is “almost” six years old and I say he has a great future in wildlife observation.\u00a0 Congratulations to Will!<\/p>\n

For the most beautiful photo:\u00a0 Professor Lawrence Levin!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ever the amazing photographer, Professor Lawrence Levin captured these Carolina wrens, above, building their nest on a bridge post on Roosevelt Island.\u00a0 Fabulous!<\/p>\n

For capturing a neighborhood visitor so well:\u00a0 Patrick Kellogg!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Chief Development Officer Patrick Kellogg captured this beautiful robin (above) on his walk in Alexandria.\u00a0 Beautiful!<\/p>\n

Dr. Elizabeth Child also reported her observations of a red cardinal family nesting in her front yard.\u00a0 No photo, but still, very nice!<\/p>\n

Oneeka Gregory also captured a red cardinal between the trees:\u00a0 Nicely done!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Campus Minister Sr. Ann Howard is very observant of the wild things all around us.\u00a0 She captured a great photo of very hard-to-get pileated woodpeckers on a tree on Connecticut Avenue — I’m jealous that you could get them!!\u00a0 Great!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And this pair of mourning doves on a wire in Hyattsville:\"\"<\/p>\n

Nursing Student Shelda Summons says that she loves wildlife photography and her large porfolio of wonderful “wild things” is a great testament to her talent… below are her many photos:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>And “Katie the Moodle Lady” Wanschura was on the hunt in her backyard an she captured some very nice blue jays, robins and squirrels:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"Major Gifts Officer Barbara Golliday reports that her husband, a St. Louis Cardinals fan, was on the lookout for his favorite bird and found one:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Professor Carlos Cardenas sent in this lovely mourning dove nesting on his porch:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nursing Adjunct Professor Maureen Origoni sent in these very healthy looking turkeys in Poolesville, MD:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And while we don’t have photos, Trinity Trustee Jack Leary reports that he has seen a great blue heron and a wild turkey in his very backyard!\u00a0 His yard has a beautiful waterfall and stream, no wonder…!!\u00a0 And in nearby Rock Creek Park, he’s also seen a fox and even a river otter.\u00a0 Nature is all around us!<\/p>\n

And right here at our very Trinity campus, I watched this hawk sitting on the cross on top of Main Hall last week as a crow flew by:<\/p>\n

\"\"Wild things.\u00a0 They are everywhere!<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone for your joyful participation in our excursions into backyard birding!\u00a0 Keep up the great work!<\/p>\n

Our next challenge:\u00a0 The Trinity Cookbook!\u00a0<\/strong> Send me your photos of your favorite dishes and recipes as well so we can make a virtual cookbook to share with others — What’s Cookin’ at Trinity?\u00a0 Let’s do this!\u00a0 Send entries to me on email president@trinitydc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes! We are “for the birds” and that’s a good thing! Trinity celebrates our stewardship of nature and our wild friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":8658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2218,495],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-backyard-birds","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}