{"id":2934,"date":"2015-05-19T21:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2015-05-19T22:57:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T02:57:31","slug":"an-afternoons-birds-and-a-seed-thief-chipmunk-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"An Afternoon&#8217;s Birds and a <del>Seed Thief<\/del> Chipmunk, Too."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u00a0morning, I set about to re-engineer the support for the main bird feeder in hopes of keeping the chipmunks at bay.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, I sat down with my camera to watch the birds and to see the results of my efforts regarding the chipmunks.\u00a0 I am happy to report great success&#8230; only one chipmunk on the feeder in a day and a half and none since I made a minor adjustment early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>As for the birds, the most common birds at the seed these days are finches. Gold finches are the most common but we&#8217;ve had good numbers of purple finches as well. Downy woodpeckers are the most common suet eaters present but an occasional nuthatch and a red-bellied woodpecker also appear.<\/p>\n<p>One oddity that has appeared at the feeders\u00a0over the past few days is a male red-winged blackbird. It just seems to perch and watch for a while before flying off. I have never seen it take either seed or suet.<\/p>\n<p>The turkey is also an oddity in that I was actually able to get a good photograph. Turkeys are very common in our neck of the woods. (I am usually awakened\u00a0at about 5:30 these mornings by their calls.) However, they are usually very skittish and thus difficult to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>This male appeared by the greenhouse about six last evening and stuck around long enough for me to get a few nice photographs.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=356 autoscroll = false width = 800 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday\u00a0morning, I set about to re-engineer the support for the main bird feeder in hopes of keeping the chipmunks at bay. After lunch, I sat down with my camera to watch the birds and to see the results of my efforts regarding the chipmunks.\u00a0 I am happy to report great success&#8230; only one chipmunk on [&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":[4,92,72,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","category-spring","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","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=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}