{"id":7991,"date":"2025-02-28T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7991"},"modified":"2025-02-28T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:15:42","slug":"backyard-critters-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/28\/backyard-critters-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Critters Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several times a week, kitchen scraps are tossed into the little wash area behind our retaining wall out back. Rather than sending the scraps to the landfill, we figure the desert critters will benefit from them more.<\/p>\n<p>An Antelope Squirrel snacking on a cashew:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-antelope-squirrel-with-cashew-nut.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-antelope-squirrel-with-cashew-nut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7992\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-antelope-squirrel-with-cashew-nut.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-antelope-squirrel-with-cashew-nut-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-antelope-squirrel-with-cashew-nut-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Desert Cottontail Rabbit snacking on the heel from a loaf of bread:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-desert-cottontail-and-slice-of-bread.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-desert-cottontail-and-slice-of-bread.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7993\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-desert-cottontail-and-slice-of-bread.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-desert-cottontail-and-slice-of-bread-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250227-desert-cottontail-and-slice-of-bread-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are other critters in that area including Quail, Thrashers, Cardinals, etc. all too camera shy for me to get a good photo this time. Click on images to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several times a week, kitchen scraps are tossed into the little wash area behind our retaining wall out back. Rather than sending the scraps to the&#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-7991","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\/7991","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=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7995,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions\/7995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}