{"id":3040,"date":"2015-06-28T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2015-06-28T12:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T16:21:30","slug":"eastern-kingbirds-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Kingbirds Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (27 Jun) morning I headed down to the eastern kingbird nest at the lake. The skies were mostly overcast; good light for photographing black and white birds. The light on the nest would also be\u00a0coming from a good direction. I was hoping to catch a &#8220;feeding sequence&#8221;&#8230; the events that happen within the couple of seconds after an adult arrives at the nest.\u00a0In the two hours I observed the nest, I watched between ten and twenty visits by the adults.<\/p>\n<p>The first photo in this sequence was made about two minutes before the others. The remaining four frames were made within a total of two seconds.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=372 autoscroll = false width = 960 height = 768\u00a0useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<p>In the intervals between adult kingbirds arriving at the nest, I chatted with numerous passersby and photographed whatever perched nearby. In addition to the kingbirds, I was able to photograph cedar waxwings (there are a lot of still green blueberries along the lake road) and grackles. I also heard many red-winged blackbirds in the marsh to the north of the road but none approached close enough to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=373 autoscroll = false width = 800 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (27 Jun) morning I headed down to the eastern kingbird nest at the lake. The skies were mostly overcast; good light for photographing black and white birds. The light on the nest would also be\u00a0coming from a good direction. I was hoping to catch a &#8220;feeding sequence&#8221;&#8230; the events that happen within the couple [&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":[4,92,111,3],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","category-summer","category-wildlife","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","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=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}