{"id":255,"date":"2007-07-22T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2008-11-27T20:27:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T03:27:47","slug":"birding-in-the-desert-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Birding in the Desert (Part IV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How unobservant I&#8217;ve been . . . we have goldfinches and I\u00a0just noticed them!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-987\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-987\" title=\"lesser_goldfinch_1\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/lesser_goldfinch_1.jpg\" alt=\"Lesser Goldfinch\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lesser Goldfinch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>These aren&#8217;t the more colorful goldfinches you see in the East and Midwest, but for the desert they&#8217;re quite gaudy.\u00a0 If I were one of them I&#8217;d resent the name &#8220;Lesser Goldfinch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These birds are quite small, about half the size of our house finches and sparrows &#8211; not a great deal larger than hummingbirds, in fact.\u00a0 Which reminds me . . . need to take a photo of a hummingbird (wow, how hard is <em>that<\/em> going to be?).<\/p>\n<p><em>Previous entries in this thread: <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=254\">here<\/a>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=248\"><em><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">here<\/span><\/em><\/a><em>, and <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=241\"><em><span style=\"color: #b85b5a;\">here<\/span><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How unobservant I&#8217;ve been . . . we have goldfinches and I\u00a0just noticed them! These aren&#8217;t the more colorful goldfinches you see in the East and Midwest, but for the desert they&#8217;re quite gaudy.\u00a0 If I were one of them I&#8217;d resent the name &#8220;Lesser Goldfinch.&#8221; These birds are quite small, about half the size [&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-255","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\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}