{"id":598,"date":"2013-06-28T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2014-04-07T01:06:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:06:19","slug":"family-of-red-winged-blackbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/family-of-red-winged-blackbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of Red-Winged Blackbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a rainy June.  Boston averages around three and a half inches of rain in June and we have had over ten inches of rain with more to come.<\/p>\n<p>The Muddy River is starting to overflow its banks.  I stopped at Willow Pond in Olmsted Park to watch a family of red-winged blackbirds.  The male with its red wing-patch (partially covered in the photo below) is the most easily recognizable.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_599\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird1.jpg\" alt=\"Male red-winged blackbird\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" class=\"size-full wp-image-599\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Male red-winged blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The female looks like a large sparrow with a white, streaked breast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_600\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_600\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird2.jpg\" alt=\"Female red-winged blackbird\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird2.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird2-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female red-winged blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And I saw a juvenile in the same tree as a female.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_601\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_601\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 810px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird3.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile red-winged blackbird\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird3.jpg 800w, http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/blackbird3-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juvenile red-winged blackbird<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a rainy June. Boston averages around three and a half inches of rain in June and we have had over ten inches of rain with more to come. The Muddy River is starting to overflow its banks. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/family-of-red-winged-blackbirds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,190,72,493,103,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}