{"id":3287,"date":"2011-03-09T19:49:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/curve-billed-thrasher\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:49:48","slug":"curve-billed-thrasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/curve-billed-thrasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Curve Billed Thrasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/curve-bill-bell.jpg' title='curve-bill-bell.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/curve-bill-bell.jpg' alt='curve-bill-bell.jpg' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, I get lucky with my <strong>Canon SX110 IS<\/strong> camera and get a shot that rivals Verna&#8217;s excellent work with her <strong>Canon Digital Rebel XTi<\/strong>. I was sitting on the patio today and observed a <a href=\"http:\/\/identify.whatbird.com\/obj\/745\/_\/Curve-billed_Thrasher.aspx\">curve-billed thrasher<\/a> helping itself to Verna&#8217;s seed bell on the other side of the RV drive through. <\/p>\n<p>The bell was about twenty-five feet from me when I snapped the shot using  both the built-in optical and electronic zoom features. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while, I get lucky with my Canon SX110 IS camera and get a shot that rivals Verna&#8217;s excellent work with her Canon&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}