{"id":3080,"date":"2015-07-06T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2015-07-06T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:46:28","slug":"eastern-kingbird-nest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3080","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Kingbird Nest Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple of hours yesterday (5 July) observing (and photographing) the eastern kingbird nest on Gregg Lake. The nestlings have made great progress since <a href=\"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=3040\">my last visit a week previous<\/a>. See the first photo below&#8230; that is one of the nestlings, looking very adult-like both in color and size.<\/p>\n<p>I saw no signs of fledgling&#8230; the juveniles spent most of their time with mouths agape waiting to be fed. The adults obliged them; bringing in a steady supply of insects, mainly dragonflies from what I could see.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the kingbirds, there was a small flock (maybe six individuals) of cedar waxwings in the vicinity. One a couple of occasions, waxwings perched in the trees along the road within three or four feet of where I had set up my camera.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=378 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600\u00a0useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<p>The three frame feeding sequence took less than four seconds.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple of hours yesterday (5 July) observing (and photographing) the eastern kingbird nest on Gregg Lake. The nestlings have made great progress since my last visit a week previous. See the first photo below&#8230; that is one of the nestlings, looking very adult-like both in color and size. I saw no signs [&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-3080","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\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}