{"id":4617,"date":"2013-02-04T20:46:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T03:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/curve-billed-thrasher-2\/"},"modified":"2013-02-05T11:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T18:10:26","slug":"curve-billed-thrasher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/curve-billed-thrasher-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Curve Billed Thrasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/curve-billed-thrasher.jpg' title='Curve Billed Thrasher'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/curve-billed-thrasher.jpg' alt='Curve Billed Thrasher' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a pair of curve billed thrashers who are expressing an interest in nesting in our big saguaro. When the crew installed the cactus in August, it had a couple of abandoned bird nests in the arms. Today, the thrasher was on the cactus singing a different tune. Instead of its usual wit-WEET call, it was making a warbling, squeaky, hurried song, which we think is a mating call.<\/p>\n<p>We had thrasher chicks last spring and summer in a nest in a nearby cholla cactus. It was low enough that we could walk over to it and take photos with eggs and then chicks, in the nest. The saguaro is a different proposition; this nest is eight feet above the ground, so we won\u2019t be able to get a camera up there. Click on the image to enlarge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a pair of curve billed thrashers who are expressing an interest in nesting in our big saguaro. When the crew installed the cactus in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}