{"id":2974,"date":"2015-06-02T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2015-06-02T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T15:54:13","slug":"rainy-day-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2974","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, we have been getting some much needed rain. I&#8217;m not complaining but I&#8217;d much prefer a 65 degree (F) rain than the 45 degree rain we&#8217;re getting!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon, we noticed a male hummingbird spending a lot of time perched near the feeder. Presumably he was defending his territory from an intruder.<\/p>\n<p>His more-or-less constant presence was enough to get me to set up the blind and camera in the 45 degree rain and spend an hour photographing the birds. I was amazingly warm and dry in the blind and a number of other birds appeared in the hour I was sequestered therein.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=361 autoscroll = false width = 800 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days, we have been getting some much needed rain. I&#8217;m not complaining but I&#8217;d much prefer a 65 degree (F) rain than the 45 degree rain we&#8217;re getting! Yesterday afternoon, we noticed a male hummingbird spending a lot of time perched near the feeder. Presumably he was defending his territory from [&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":[154],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","category-spring","category-wildlife","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","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=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}