{"id":5508,"date":"2013-01-31T18:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/overtures-to-spring\/"},"modified":"2013-01-31T18:18:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T01:18:14","slug":"overtures-to-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/01\/31\/overtures-to-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Overtures to Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/curve-billed-thrasher-nest.jpg' title='Curve Billed Thrasher'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/curve-billed-thrasher-nest.jpg' alt='Curve Billed Thrasher' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple of days, we have noticed a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Curve-billed_Thrasher\">curve billed thrasher<\/a> or two, hanging around our transplanted saguaro cactus. When the crew <a href=\"http:\/\/reynosawatch.org\/minstrel\/2012\/08\/09\/how-saguaro-happens-part-last-we-hope\/\">installed the cactus in August<\/a>, it had a couple of abandoned bird nests in the arms. Today, the thrasher was in one of the nests singing a different tune. Instead of its usual <em>wit-WEET<\/em> call, it was making a warbling, squeaky, hurried song, which we think is a mating call.<\/p>\n<p>We had thrasher chicks last spring and summer in a nest in a nearby cholla cactus. It was low enough that we could walk over to it and take photos with eggs and then chicks, in the nest. The saguaro is a different proposition; this nest is eight feet above the ground, so we won&#8217;t be able to get a camera up there. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of days, we have noticed a curve billed thrasher or two, hanging around our transplanted saguaro cactus. When the crew installed the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}