{"id":8691,"date":"2013-08-26T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2013-08-26T10:33:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T14:33:53","slug":"its-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=8691","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s a bird!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8692\" alt=\"Hansen-birdblog_DSC0507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hansen-birdblog_DSC0507.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hansen-birdblog_DSC0507.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hansen-birdblog_DSC0507-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I went to several outdoor places to photograph primarily butterflies. I&#8217;ll post some images from those adventures in the coming days. However, I did want to post this guy.\u00a0 Many times when I&#8217;m out photographing, I see these gorgeous yellow birds &#8212; American Goldfinches &#8212; which I learned happens to be the state bird of NJ (along with Iowa and Washington). These birds are incredibly active, jumping and flying at the smallest hint of movement.\u00a0 Generally I can only take pictures from afar. However, yesterday as I was standing and scoping out the area, I realized it was sitting on a cone flower not far from me. I very slowly raised my camera and starting taking pictures.\u00a0 I managed to take about 15 shots &#8212; looking left, looking right, looking over its shoulder, and feeding off the flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I went to several outdoor places to photograph primarily butterflies. I&#8217;ll post some images from those adventures in the coming days. However, I did want to post this guy.\u00a0 Many times when I&#8217;m out photographing, I see these gorgeous yellow birds &#8212; American Goldfinches &#8212; which I learned happens to be the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-photos-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8694,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions\/8694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}