{"id":4013,"date":"2012-03-27T20:42:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T03:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/high-desert-wildlife-drama\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T20:42:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T03:42:51","slug":"high-desert-wildlife-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/high-desert-wildlife-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"High Desert Wildlife Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thrasher-chase-snake.jpg' title='thrasher-chase-snake.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/thrasher-chase-snake.jpg' alt='thrasher-chase-snake.jpg' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago we <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/bishops-cap-cactus-in-bloom\/#comment-30331\">saw our first snake of the season<\/a>. Our buddy, Crotalus, advised that it was a Sonoran gopher snake and that it preys on rodents and is non venomous. Today, the same snake appeared out back. As it climbed up the embankment by our driveway, a curve-billed thrasher and its mate showed up to encourage the snake to go elsewhere. The bird in the photo pecked at the snake&#8217;s tail several times before the snake hurried off into some underbrush on the neighbor&#8217;s property. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago we saw our first snake of the season. Our buddy, Crotalus, advised that it was a Sonoran gopher snake and that it&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}