{"id":10127,"date":"2015-09-02T16:10:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2015-09-02T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:10:35","slug":"002366-boids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/02\/002366-boids\/","title":{"rendered":"002\/366: Boids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a while this morning typing on my laptop on the deck, and brought the new camera out with me for occasional procrastination. The shady spot at that hour has a nice view of the bird feeder, and I snapped a few shots of these guys feeding (using a telephoto lens):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10128\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/09\/birds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2015\/09\/birds.jpg\" alt=\"Two birds on our backyard feeder; not sure of the species.\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10128\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/birds.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/birds-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two birds on our backyard feeder; not sure of the species.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(I cropped and scaled this, and did the auto-level color correction in GIMP.)<\/p>\n<p>The one on the left is a house sparrow, I believe, and we have dozens of them around. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen the one on the right before, though, and have no idea what species it is. I could probably look it up, but posting the photo and waiting for someone to identify it in the comments is probably just as fast&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Sadly, the hummingbird I saw feeding on one of the Rose of Sharon bushes a few days ago didn&#8217;t reappear. Maybe next time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a while this morning typing on my laptop on the deck, and brought the new camera out with me for occasional procrastination. The shady spot at that hour has a nice view of the bird feeder, and I snapped a few shots of these guys feeding (using a telephoto lens): (I cropped and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/02\/002366-boids\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">002\/366: Boids<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,72,50,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-life_science","category-pictures","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}