{"id":55,"date":"2009-12-24T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogengine\/blog3\/post\/Another-colourful-visitor"},"modified":"2009-12-24T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T16:13:00","slug":"another-colourful-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2009\/12\/24\/another-colourful-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Another colourful visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t intend this blog to become a bird-watching log, but we do get some colourful visitors in our backyard. A couple of days ago, this interesting character showed up:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009%2f12%2fBird_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>(There weren&#8217;t three of them &#8211; it&#8217;s just some creative photo-manipulation). Originally he was underneath the birches, posing perfectly for the camera, but by the time I decided to go and get the camera to take his portrait, he&#8217;d moved further back towards the fence, and was working his way along the edge of the lawn poking his beak into the ground to look for insects, I guess.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009%2f12%2fBird_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>A quick perusal of the Pacific Coastal Wildlife Regional handbook indicates that our visitor is most likely a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsamore.com\/byb\/nofl-red-shafted.htm\">Red Shafted or Intergrade Flicker<\/a>. He&#8217;s &#8220;the only woodpecker regularly seen on the ground where he feeds on Ants, etc&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t intend this blog to become a bird-watching log, but we do get some colourful visitors in our backyard. A couple of days ago, this interesting character showed up: &nbsp; (There weren&#8217;t three of them &#8211; it&#8217;s just some creative photo-manipulation). Originally he was underneath the birches, posing perfectly for the camera, but by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}