{"id":6428,"date":"2015-01-24T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T02:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/no-they-didnt-say-meep-meep\/"},"modified":"2015-01-24T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T02:39:11","slug":"no-they-didnt-say-meep-meep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/01\/24\/no-they-didnt-say-meep-meep\/","title":{"rendered":"No, They Didn&#8217;t Say &#8220;MEEP MEEP&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/road-runner-3.jpg' title='Male'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/road-runner-3.jpg' alt='Male' width='270' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/road-runner-1.jpg' title='Female'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/road-runner-1.jpg' alt='Female' width='270' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have started carrying the camera with me as I do some of the routine outdoor chores; one never knows when a desert &#8220;Photo Op&#8221; might present itself. I had just finished taking a birdseed block and bell up to the feeders this afternoon, when two roadrunners, a male and a female (mates, I presume) showed up at the base of the poles where the feeders hang. <\/p>\n<p>I was near the back door of the screened-in patio and had my telephoto lens on the camera at the ready. I snapped several shots of the birds as they lurked around the feeders waiting for an opportunity to snatch a goldfinch or other small bird as it might come to feed. Click on either bird to enlarge the image.<\/p>\n<p>We saw these birds earlier in the day when the dogs alerted us to their presence. We saw them again as we were taking the dogs for a walk after breakfast. I got the shots above an hour or so after the last morning sighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have started carrying the camera with me as I do some of the routine outdoor chores; one never knows when a desert &#8220;Photo Op&#8221;&#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":[70,47,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-environment","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","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=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}