{"id":7156,"date":"2017-04-04T20:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/04\/ammospermophilus-leucurus-fortitudus\/"},"modified":"2017-04-04T20:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:15:33","slug":"ammospermophilus-leucurus-fortitudus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/04\/ammospermophilus-leucurus-fortitudus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ammospermophilus Leucurus Fortitudus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/antelope-squirrel.jpg' title='White Tailed Antelope Squirrel'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/antelope-squirrel.jpg' alt='White Tailed Antelope Squirrel' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damsel and I maintain a wild bird and animal feeding station on the hill just behind the RV drive behind our house. I was up there this morning replenishing the feeders when this little white-tailed antelope squirrel came right up to me and seemingly begged for a tidbit. I broke off a little piece from a sunflower seed bird bell and tossed it to the little critter. I had my little camera, so I snapped pictures of it as it consumed the tidbit I threw down.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this post comes from the binomial name of this variety of squirrel combined with a bastardization of the Latin word for fortitude or &#8220;courageous.&#8221; It seemed like a brave little critter to come within a couple of feet from where I stood.<\/p>\n<p>There were several other squirrels and a few birds in the area; a cardinal in the mesquite tree behind me and a curve billed thrasher already pecking on the bird block I just hung up as I started back down the hill. We certainly enjoy our desert critters and flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damsel and I maintain a wild bird and animal feeding station on the hill just behind the RV drive behind our house. I was up there&#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":[70,47,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156","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=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}