{"id":6573,"date":"2015-05-01T20:02:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T03:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/putting-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket\/"},"modified":"2015-05-01T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T03:07:44","slug":"putting-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/01\/putting-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting All Your Eggs In One Basket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/six-eggs.jpg' title='Six Eggs'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/six-eggs.jpg' alt='Six Eggs' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damsel and I saw three eggs in this Curve Billed Thrasher nest <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/15\/curve-billed-thrasher-nest-and-eggs\/\">earlier in the spring<\/a>, but when we checked on them later, they were gone. We don&#8217;t know if the nest was raided or if the parents tossed non-viable eggs out. We did find a thrasher eggshell on the road nearby, cracked open and empty.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, it seems that the parents are serious about covering the odds of one or two survivors by laying a half-dozen eggs in the nest. I walked by the cholla cactus where this nest is located and saw blue in the nest. I got this shot by holding the camera out at arm&#8217;s length and pointing at where I thought the nest was located. I didn&#8217;t want to get stabbed by the spines. It was a lucky camera shot, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>For now, we will give the Thrashers their space, not wanting to disturb nature in progress. If we&#8217;re lucky again, perhaps we can photograph some chicks in the nest after they hatch. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel and I saw three eggs in this Curve Billed Thrasher nest earlier in the spring, but when we checked on them later, they were gone.&#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-6573","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\/6573","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=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}