{"id":668,"date":"2013-12-29T21:08:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T02:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2013-12-29T21:08:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T02:08:45","slug":"creature-feature-2013-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2013-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2013 #13"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hung out in the back yard for a bit on Christmas Day and snapped a few pictures of the backyard wildlife. This Tufted Titmouse stopped by for some fast food:
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\n… to go:
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\nAnd he wasn’t the only really small bird. This Chickadee was on the alert:
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\nThese folks (Mourning Dove and Blue Jay) stopped by the see what was going on:
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\nMeanwhile, out on the lake, it’s pretty much the winter season. This Seagull is far from the coast, but that’s not unusual for this time of year:
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\nOne of the geese seems to be off to a rough start to winter, but she seemed to be flying just fine, even if minus a few flight feathers:
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\nThe weather cleared up just in time this weekend to get in some flying. I think this is Rainbow Falls, near Jones Gap, SC (click on the picture and zoom into the full-res image):
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\nwhile clouds hung on over the Smokie Mountains:
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\nI know this is a “creature feature” and you don’t see any creatures in those last two pictures, but I’m sure they’re in there somewhere. Some would consider the planet itself a creature (check out the “Powers That Be”<\/A> series of books by Ann McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough for a story of a planet that really does fit that description).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hung out in the back yard for a bit on Christmas Day and snapped a few pictures of the backyard wildlife. This Tufted Titmouse stopped by for some fast food: … to go: And he wasn’t the only really small bird. This Chickadee was on the alert: These folks (Mourning Dove and Blue Jay) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}