{"id":4190,"date":"2012-04-24T11:54:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T18:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2017-06-08T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T03:41:00","slug":"the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/04\/24\/the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new house has proven to be a bit of an animal kingdom:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The two bird feeders are bringing in flocks of finches, sparrows, and doves, as well a variety of less-frequent visitors.  It can be loud.<\/li>\n<li>Proving the bird feeders support multiple levels of the food chain, a young sharp-shinned hawk has made the backyard his play area, and hangs out to terrorize the smaller birds on occasion.  His attention isn&#8217;t only directed at birds: while I was doing some yard work he also took a shot at my head, apparently to ensure that I didn&#8217;t feel excluded.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a crow who visits occasionally and has shown an irrational fear of salami.<\/li>\n<li>The mammal situation consists of some wrestling baby squirrels, some very un-subtle neighborhood cats, and a family of tree-climbing rats that have made the area under the feeders their late night dining area.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what the future holds for the wildlife oasis that is our backyard, although some sort of water supply and potentially an owl house may be needed additions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7YHLqyYmbtQ\" class=\"img-main\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Our new roommates get lunch after the parent black phoebe checks out Audrey&#8217;s birdcam.  Taken from the eave above our porch.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new house has proven to be a bit of an animal kingdom: The two bird feeders are bringing in flocks of finches, sparrows, and doves, as well a variety of less-frequent visitors. It can be loud. Proving the bird feeders support multiple levels of the food chain, a young sharp-shinned hawk has made the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2012\/04\/24\/the-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Birds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,43],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-homeownership","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11056,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}