{"id":6171,"date":"2018-12-17T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/more-backyard-birds\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T20:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:12:55","slug":"more-backyard-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/more-backyard-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"More Backyard Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curve-billed-thrasher.jpg' title='Curve Billed Thrasher'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/curve-billed-thrasher.jpg' alt='Curve Billed Thrasher' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, like many Mondays, I went up on the knoll behind the house and replenished the bird feeders. We have a Seed Block Cage, a Bell Holder, two large Nyjer Seed Finch Feeders, a smaller Finch Feeder and a Songbird Seed Feeder.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing up on the knoll, the usual avian customers came out to enjoy the fruits of our labor. I got out my Canon EOS with the 300mm zoom lens and captured these three up near the feeders. Top: <em>Curve Billed Thrasher<\/em>, Bottom Left: <em>A Male Gambel&#8217;s Quail<\/em> and Bottom Right: <em>Abert&#8217;s Towhee<\/em>. The latter of the three, we don&#8217;t see very often, but it was availing itself of some of the songbird seeds after it posed in a mesquite tree. Click on any image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gambels-quail.jpg' title='Gambel\u2019s Quail'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/gambels-quail.jpg' alt='Gambel\u2019s Quail' width='248' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aberts-towhee.jpg' title='Abert\u2019s Towhee'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aberts-towhee.jpg' alt='Abert\u2019s Towhee' width='248' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, like many Mondays, I went up on the knoll behind the house and replenished the bird feeders. We have a Seed Block Cage, a Bell&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-photography","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}