{"id":2939,"date":"2015-05-19T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2015-05-19T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T02:42:58","slug":"big-bertha-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"Big Bertha Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening I took a drive and picked up Big Bertha* from the repairman. Don&#8217;t ask how she ended up in the shop&#8230; I&#8217;m trying to forget!<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon,\u00a0just to make sure that all is working properly, I set up by the feeders and gave Bertha a thorough workout.\u00a0All is looking good, as you can see in the photos below.<\/p>\n<p>The male red-winged blackbird made an appearance again&#8230; just to observe. Very strange&#8230; the feeders are set up at the edge of the woods (i.e. it is not typical red-winged blackbird habitat) and we are at least a quarter mile from the nearest marsh where these birds usually hangout.<\/p>\n<p>The other interesting visitor was a\u00a0great crested flycatcher. I do not think that I have ever seen one before.<\/p>\n<p>At least the feeders are in the right habitat for this species&#8230; mature deciduous forest, according to Sibley. This individual just perched for a minute or two near the feeders before it flew off.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=357 autoscroll = false width = 800 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<p>* My 600 mm f\/4 lens.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening I took a drive and picked up Big Bertha* from the repairman. Don&#8217;t ask how she ended up in the shop&#8230; I&#8217;m trying to forget! This afternoon,\u00a0just to make sure that all is working properly, I set up by the feeders and gave Bertha a thorough workout.\u00a0All is looking good, as you can [&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":[4,92,72,62],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","category-spring","category-the-new-yard-environs","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","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=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}