{"id":6414,"date":"2015-01-09T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/nest-building\/"},"modified":"2015-01-09T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:48:42","slug":"nest-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/nest-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Nest Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nest-building.jpg' title='Nest Building'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/nest-building.jpg' alt='Nest Building' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still messing with the new camera to continue exploring its various features. I needed to set the autofocus to a single, rather than multiple, focus points for use with the telephoto lens.<\/p>\n<p>While I was out in the courtyard experimenting with the new setting, I saw a curve billed thrasher on the cholla in front of the house. Upon closer inspection through the viewfinder, I noticed that it held a twig in its beak. After I took this photo, the bird went deeper into the cactus where it and its mate are apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/04\/24\/curve-billed-thrasher-nest\/\">building a nest<\/a>. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still messing with the new camera to continue exploring its various features. I needed to set the autofocus to a single, rather than multiple, focus&#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":[70,47,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","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=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}