{"id":8554,"date":"2026-07-23T20:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:49:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T03:49:56","slug":"backyard-critters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/23\/backyard-critters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each morning I get up and take <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/02\/tuckers-cuteness\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tucker<\/a> out for a walk in the vicinity of our house. After he does his thing and goes back inside, I usually go back out with one of my cameras to opportunely catch some of the wildlife in the area on digital. This week, I took these photos below of some quail chick juveniles, a cactus wren in the ocotillo and an antelope squirrel getting one of the several peanuts I toss out to them.<\/p>\n<p>Photos below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260723-juvenile-quail.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260723-juvenile-quail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8555\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260723-juvenile-quail.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260723-juvenile-quail-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260723-juvenile-quail-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260722-cactus-wren-in-ocotillo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260722-cactus-wren-in-ocotillo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8556\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260722-cactus-wren-in-ocotillo.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260722-cactus-wren-in-ocotillo-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260722-cactus-wren-in-ocotillo-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260721-squirrelnut.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260721-squirrelnut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8557\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260721-squirrelnut.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260721-squirrelnut-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260721-squirrelnut-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know that we already post a lot of photos of the critters, but we never get tired of seeing the wildlife around our little paradise as they flourish around us.<\/p>\n<p>Click on any image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each morning I get up and take Tucker out for a walk in the vicinity of our house. After he does his thing and goes back&#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":[38,12,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8554","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\/8554","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=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8560,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions\/8560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}