{"id":197,"date":"2007-06-11T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2007-06-11T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T17:14:00","slug":"strange-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Strange Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/536689079\/in\/set-72157600219492832\/\" target=_blank><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1097\/536689079_a6fe390458_m.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>As this photo clearly demonstrates, the hummingbird found in California is known to be predatory, and to consume small amphibians.  In this shot, we see our subject clutching a small tree-frog, which has been anchored to something, so that we could catch the hummingbird in the act.  They are notoriously cagey about allowing others to see them engaged in this behavior &#8211; perhaps because their mouthparts are quite insufficient to the task, and the act of eating is more of an act of supreme slurping.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>OK, enough fun.  I just couldn&#8217;t resist, though, when I happened across this picture.  It&#8217;s difficult to shoot these guys, because they <i>are<\/i> so cagey about being photographed.  But, moving slowly, I was able to get close enough to have him pose for quite some time atop the wind-chime.  He&#8217;s also posed atop another wind-chime (a ceramic finch) which is only a few feet away from this one.  Both of the chimes are about a foot away from the feeder, which is why he&#8217;s sitting there: guarding the food.  Not predating frogs.  Maybe.<\/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>As this photo clearly demonstrates, the hummingbird found in California is known to be predatory, and to consume small amphibians. In this shot, we see our subject clutching a small tree-frog, which has been anchored to something, so that we could catch the hummingbird in the act. They are notoriously cagey about allowing others to [&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-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}