{"id":187,"date":"2007-05-31T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2007-05-31T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T00:02:00","slug":"strange-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Strange Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/522280012\/\" target=_blank><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/226\/522280012_8381d5c8da_m.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Within the realm of &#8220;strange&#8221; must fall &#8230; our resident King Of The Hummingbirds.  He&#8217;s found that the Finch wind-chime is a perfect place from which to guard the feeder.  So, there he sits, watching the feeder for competitors.  And <b>our finches<\/b>?  They watch the Hummingbird King.  They&#8217;re getting used to him, but when he takes to perching on top of their cage &#8230; well, they hold very very still.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Life is so odd in the birds&#8217; little corner of the world, but this one just takes the cake.  To the birds, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s nothing but a &#8230; rock?  But to us it&#8217;s hilarious, because it&#8217;s just birds on top of birds on top of birds.  Crazy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the realm of &#8220;strange&#8221; must fall &#8230; our resident King Of The Hummingbirds. He&#8217;s found that the Finch wind-chime is a perfect place from which to guard the feeder. So, there he sits, watching the feeder for competitors. And our finches? They watch the Hummingbird King. They&#8217;re getting used to him, but when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}