{"id":218,"date":"2013-02-19T21:46:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T02:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2014-04-07T00:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T04:59:07","slug":"birding_public_garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/birding_public_garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding in the Public Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and windy, yesterday was not the best day to visit the Boston Public Garden.  But the sky was clear, and visitors were sliding along the ice on the lagoon.<\/p>\n<p>A few birds were out.  The usual suspects such as the rock pigeons, starlings, robins, and house sparrows.  But I also managed to see a blue jay and this red-tailed hawk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_219\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 760px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1_2013_02_18_hawk.jpg\" alt=\"Soaring red-tailed hawk\" title=\"Red-tailed hawk\" width=\"750\" height=\"464\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1_2013_02_18_hawk.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/1_2013_02_18_hawk-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A juvenile red-tailed hawk, yet to develop the characteristic red tail-feathers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The blue jay was flitting about on a weeping willow that had a hole running clear through one of its branches.  I wonder what creature made that happen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_220\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 760px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2_2013_02_18_willow.jpg\" alt=\"A weeping willow branch with a hole in it\" title=\"Hole in willow branch\" width=\"750\" height=\"490\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2_2013_02_18_willow.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2_2013_02_18_willow-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eye of the Willow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and windy, yesterday was not the best day to visit the Boston Public Garden. But the sky was clear, and visitors were sliding along the ice on the lagoon. A few birds were out. The usual suspects such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/birding_public_garden\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,190,26,76,25,5,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}