{"id":6173,"date":"2014-05-23T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T04:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/lady-cardinal\/"},"modified":"2014-05-23T21:25:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T04:25:29","slug":"lady-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/lady-cardinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lady-cardinal.jpg' title='Lady Cardinal'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/lady-cardinal.jpg' alt='Lady Cardinal' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neither male nor female of the species <em>cardinalis cardinalis<\/em> has a good camouflage scheme for the desert. This female cardinal was perched in a mesquite tree adjacent to Damsel&#8217;s bird feeders. As you can see, her camo isn&#8217;t exactly something that blends in well with the desert&#8217;s spring colors. Regardless, their repeated trips to the feeders out back, speak to their survivability in our part of the desert.<\/p>\n<p>I was using my Canon SX40HS Power Shot camera with zoom set to near maximum in &#8220;AUTO&#8221; mode. Damsel gets most of the good shots we post here, but once in a while, I get lucky. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither male nor female of the species cardinalis cardinalis has a good camouflage scheme for the desert. This female cardinal was perched in a mesquite tree&#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":[70,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6173","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\/6173","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=6173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}