{"id":7963,"date":"2025-02-19T16:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7963"},"modified":"2025-02-19T16:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T23:02:13","slug":"spring-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/spring-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Pom1vL5Gyk?si=yAfHSRfXy7bv5OTW\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This 10 second video is of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Curve-billed_Thrasher\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">Curve-Billed Thrasher<\/a> singing what sounds like a mating call. It&#8217;s not the usual loud &#8220;weee-weet-tweet&#8221; that we hear during other times of the year. Could it be that we&#8217;re getting an early spring about four weeks ahead of schedule? The forecast for our part of Arizona calls for 80&deg; temperatures by the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>AS you can see from the video, holding the camera steady at 250mm zoom is difficult without a bi- or tripod. I made this video today with my <a href=\"https:\/\/global.canon\/en\/c-museum\/product\/dslr883.html\" target=\"_blank\">Canon EOS Rebel SL3<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usa.canon.com\/shop\/p\/ef-s-55-250mm-f-4-5-6-is-stm?color=Black&#038;type=New\" target=\"_blank\">EF 55-250mm lens<\/a>. I am still experimenting with and getting used to making videos with the Canon camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 10 second video is of a Curve-Billed Thrasher singing what sounds like a mating call. It&#8217;s not the usual loud &#8220;weee-weet-tweet&#8221; that we hear during&#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":[38,17,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-climate","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963","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=7963"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7969,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7963\/revisions\/7969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}