{"id":6863,"date":"2016-02-11T20:13:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/cardinal-on-the-block-feeder\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T20:13:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T03:13:28","slug":"cardinal-on-the-block-feeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/cardinal-on-the-block-feeder\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal on the Block Feeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cardinal-feeder.jpg' title='Cardinal'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/cardinal-feeder.jpg' alt='Cardinal' width='350' class='right' \/><\/a>Damsel is usually the one to get spectacular photos of scenery, classic objects and wildlife, but once in a while, I get a lucky shot. I took this photo of a cardinal visiting the seed block feeder up on the hill behind the RV drive. <\/p>\n<p>I was in the shadow of the house crouching next to the patio with my Canon Rebel SL1 and the 75-300mm telephoto lens when this handsome fellow showed up. I positioned myself in anticipation that he would eventually approach the feeder after I first spotted him in a mesquite tree some thirty feet up the hill. It was only a matter of tens of seconds before he arrived on the top of the feeder. I took several frames of which this was the best, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>This bird is the one that Damsel refers to as the &#8220;orange&#8221; cardinal because there is another one that comes around which is much brighter red than this guy. I read in Wikipedia that they get the feather colors from things in their diet and, possibly, this one did not get as many &#8220;red&#8221; food staples as the other one.<\/p>\n<p>The details on the camera settings are as follows: Canon EOS Rebel SL1, F7.0, ISO 100, 1\/500 sec shutter speed, focal length 180mm. The image was shot from a crouching position about ten yards from the subject. No tripod or other stabilizing utility used at the time. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel is usually the one to get spectacular photos of scenery, classic objects and wildlife, but once in a while, I get a lucky shot. I&#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-6863","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\/6863","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=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}