{"id":9072,"date":"2014-08-15T07:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T14:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=9072"},"modified":"2014-08-15T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T14:55:19","slug":"curb-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/curb-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Curb Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Downy Woodpecker by Rick Wright, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rickwright\/14903544546\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3854\/14903544546_0b7333b1ca_z.jpg\" alt=\"Downy Woodpecker\" width=\"640\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A downy woodpecker spent most of the day yesterday throwing wood chips and sawdust out of its neat new roost hole in our backyard; apparently the results were satisfactory, as the bird is in there this morning, looking smugly out at the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a lot of world for it to look at. Over\u00a0just a few minutes this morning, the new cavity was investigated by black-capped chickadees, tufted titmice, Carolina wrens, white-breasted nuthatches, and a second downy woodpecker; the new homeowner drove them all away with threatening movements of the head, though I didn&#8217;t see any actual contact made with that sturdy little bill.<\/p>\n<p>This should be fun to watch as the autumn proceeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A downy woodpecker spent most of the day yesterday throwing wood chips and sawdust out of its neat new roost hole in our backyard; apparently the results were satisfactory, as the bird is in there this morning, looking smugly out at the rest of the world. And there&#8217;s a lot of world for it to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/curb-appeal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curb Appeal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,52,64,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}