{"id":58,"date":"2009-11-08T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogengine\/blog3\/post\/Be-very-very-quiet"},"modified":"2009-11-08T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T08:32:00","slug":"be-very-very-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2009\/11\/08\/be-very-very-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Be very very quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out into the back yard this afternoon and stood on the grass and just contemplated the sun and the breeze and the smell of the back garden. Then I noticed that, after a while, different birds would fly into the little copse of birch trees in the middle of the lawn, and pay me no heed. I sensed an opportunity&#8230; so I went and got my camera, and then returned and stood on the lawn, waiting. Pretty soon I could hear the tap tap tap of a woodpecker:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009%2f11%2fDowny_Woodpecker_3_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>&nbsp; <br \/> I think this guy is a male <a href=\"http:\/\/my.pclink.com\/~rlovgren\/nature9n.htm\">Hairy Woodpecker<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p> A little while later, a hummingbird buzzed around me and paid attention to the trunk of the nearest birch. I took three decent pictures of her, and I&#8217;ve tried to combine them in interesting ways below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009%2f11%2fHummingbirds_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009%2f11%2fHummingbirds_2_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> What was she so interested in? There were no flowers there. I took a look:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009%2f11%2fTreats_Are_On_Woodpecker_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Aha. The woodpecker has been drilling through the outer bark, and the hummingbirds seem to enjoy the sap as it oozes out. This would be charming and all, except that I&#8217;m a little worried about our birch trees:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009%2f11%2fWoodpecker_Aftermath_2_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s beginning to look like some serious damage. I guess this is a seasonal activity, and has probably occurred often in the past, but I can&#8217;t help feeling nervous about it. We love our birch trees!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out into the back yard this afternoon and stood on the grass and just contemplated the sun and the breeze and the smell of the back garden. Then I noticed that, after a while, different birds would fly into the little copse of birch trees in the middle of the lawn, and pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery","category-photography","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}