{"id":10689,"date":"2025-03-20T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=10689"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T04:05:48","slug":"spring-equinox-20-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/20\/spring-equinox-20-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Equinox 20 March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy first day of Spring (northern hemisphere)! We&#8217;re off to a good start with daytime temperatures in the mid 70s and forecast to become in the mid 90&#8217;s in a week or so. <\/p>\n<p>Greeting me on the first day of spring were these two critters &#8212; a cactus wren on the block feeder and an antelope ground squirrel foraging in the west side of the yard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-cactus-wren.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-cactus-wren.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-cactus-wren.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-cactus-wren-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-cactus-wren-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-cactus-wren-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-squirrel.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-squirrel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10691\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-squirrel.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-squirrel-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-squirrel-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250320-squirrel-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We always get a lot of comfort and enjoyment when the creatures which abound in our little corner of the desert show themselves to us and our cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Both images were taken with the Canon EOS Rebel SL3 and an EF 55-250 lens at 250mm. Click on either image to view enlarged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy first day of Spring (northern hemisphere)! We&#8217;re off to a good start with daytime temperatures in the mid 70s and forecast to become in the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,47,37,83,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-culture","category-notions","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10689"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10695,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions\/10695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}