{"id":90069,"date":"2018-04-21T09:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T13:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=90069"},"modified":"2018-04-20T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:12:31","slug":"great-swamp-announces-17th-annual-spring-migration-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=90069","title":{"rendered":"Great Swamp announces 17th annual Spring Migration Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90070\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-90070\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Eli-Thomas-artist-jpg-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Eli-Thomas-artist-jpg.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Eli-Thomas-artist-jpg.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Eli-Thomas-artist-jpg.jpg?resize=675%2C900&amp;ssl=1 675w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Eli-Thomas-artist-jpg.jpg?resize=400%2C533&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Eli-Thomas-artist-jpg.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Eli Thomas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Great Swamp announces 17th annual Spring Migration Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Great Swamp Conservancy will host its 17th annual Spring Migration Festival celebration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday May 5 and 6, 2018, at the GSC.<\/p>\n<p>Westy\u2019s Birds of Prey, KritterKris and Feathered Friends, live baby pheasants and animals from the Utica Zoo Mobile are among the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>In addition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The works of featured artist Eli Thomas and other wildlife painters will be on display.<\/li>\n<li>Dove Creek, Liz Friedel and Al Krula will perform.<\/li>\n<li>The Zip Thru Obstacle Course, Maple Hedge horse rides and pond explorations will be available to entertain visitors.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday will feature the annual chicken barbeque.<\/li>\n<li>Take a guided bird walk, or have a lively chat with Onondaga Audubon and New York Sturgeon for Tomorrow representatives. Get free potting soil and seeds, and find some great plants to jumpstart your gardening season.<\/li>\n<li>Play fun games and make cool nature crafts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Food is available in the Lady Bug Caf\u00e9 both days.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is $4 for adults, $1 for kids 12 and under, and there is a $10 family maximum. For more information, call 315.697.2950 or email greatswampconservancy.org.<\/p>\n<p>The GSC is located at 8375 N. Main St., Canastota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Swamp announces 17th annual Spring Migration Festival The Great Swamp Conservancy will host its 17th annual Spring Migration Festival celebration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday May 5 and 6, 2018, at the GSC. Westy\u2019s Birds of Prey, KritterKris and Feathered Friends, live baby pheasants and animals from the Utica Zoo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23816,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ff","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Eli-Thomas-artist-jpg.jpg?fit=720%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-nqJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}