{"id":2096,"date":"2013-11-15T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2013-11-15T21:56:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T02:56:14","slug":"backyard-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week, I put out the bird feeder (both seeds and suet) in hopes of attracting photographic subjects. \u00a0I need to take it in every night to avoid attracting bears&#8230; I have only forgotten once so far!<\/p>\n<p>It took a few days for the birds to find the feeder but by this morning things were hopping! Thus, after I finished a few chores, I headed out to get some practice with my new photographic tool*.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the four species (junco, chickadee, gold finch, and white-throated sparrow) I photographed, there were two other species \u00a0(nuthatches and a downy woodpecker) that I did not get good photos of.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=246 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<p>*All of these photos were taken with my new-to-me Nikkor 600 mm f\/4 lens. Joan says &#8220;toy&#8221; but I am sticking with &#8220;tool&#8221;!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week, I put out the bird feeder (both seeds and suet) in hopes of attracting photographic subjects. \u00a0I need to take it in every night to avoid attracting bears&#8230; I have only forgotten once so far! It took a few days for the birds to find the feeder but by this morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92,94],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","category-november","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}