{"id":8014,"date":"2025-03-15T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:34:07","slug":"backyard-critters-on-the-ides-of-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/15\/backyard-critters-on-the-ides-of-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Critters on<br\/>&nbsp;the Ides of March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A male cardinal &#8220;hiding&#8221; behind dead cholla branches:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cardinal-hiding.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cardinal-hiding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cardinal-hiding.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cardinal-hiding-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cardinal-hiding-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pair of cactus wrens on the block feeder:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cactus-wrens.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cactus-wrens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cactus-wrens.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cactus-wrens-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-cactus-wrens-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A house finch looking at the camera:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-house-finch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-house-finch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-house-finch.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-house-finch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-house-finch-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a white-tailed antelope ground squirrel foraging:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-antelope-squirrel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-antelope-squirrel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-antelope-squirrel.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-antelope-squirrel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250315-antelope-squirrel-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the images to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male cardinal &#8220;hiding&#8221; behind dead cholla branches: A pair of cactus wrens on the block feeder: A house finch looking at the camera: Finally, a&#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-8014","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\/8014","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=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8022,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}