{"id":3006,"date":"2015-06-24T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2015-06-24T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T14:51:47","slug":"not-your-typical-bird-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Typical Bird Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woodpeckers make a distinctive call that announces their imminent appearance at the feeders. Each species&#8217; call is unique. Thus, if I listen carefully, I know when to head for the camera (which is set up on the deck) and what I can expect to find.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I heard the call of a red-bellied woodpecker, but as I got to the camera he flew up into the trees. I found him in the lens, but he\u00a0was very strongly back lit against a patch of sky&#8230; not a recipe for a good photo and I did not press the shutter release.<\/p>\n<p>As I turned away from the camera a thought popped into my head&#8230; &#8220;silhouette&#8221;. I put my eye back to the viewfinder&#8230; the bird was still there. I pressed the shutter release.<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=2660 w=600 h=600 float=none]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woodpeckers make a distinctive call that announces their imminent appearance at the feeders. Each species&#8217; call is unique. Thus, if I listen carefully, I know when to head for the camera (which is set up on the deck) and what I can expect to find. The other day I heard the call of a red-bellied [&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":[4,111,25,3],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-summer","category-the-yard","category-wildlife","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006","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=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}