{"id":248,"date":"2007-07-01T20:13:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T03:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2008-11-28T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T17:16:31","slug":"birding-in-the-desert-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Birding in the Desert (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to photograph a pair of Gila Woodpeckers and a Thrasher, but they&#8217;re skittish.\u00a0 Whenever I reach for the camera, they see the motion \u2014 I&#8217;m on the other side of a window and only a few feet away \u2014 and fly away.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1015\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1015\" title=\"gila_woodpecker\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gila_woodpecker.jpg\" alt=\"Gila Woodpecker (female)\" width=\"400\" height=\"304\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gila Woodpecker (female)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Turns out the female Gila Woodpecker is a little less shy than her mate.\u00a0 Here she is, looking for all the world as if she&#8217;s panting in the 105-degree heat.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, this is a fair-sized bird, eight or nine inches from head to tail.\u00a0 The male has a bright red patch of feathers on the top of his head, and with any luck I should be able to post a photo of him soon.<\/p>\n<p>Bird watching . . . who&#8217;d of thought I&#8217;d get into that?<\/p>\n<p><em>Previous entry in this thread: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=241\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to photograph a pair of Gila Woodpeckers and a Thrasher, but they&#8217;re skittish.\u00a0 Whenever I reach for the camera, they see the motion \u2014 I&#8217;m on the other side of a window and only a few feet away \u2014 and fly away. Turns out the female Gila Woodpecker is a little less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}