{"id":3296,"date":"2021-04-04T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T23:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2021-04-04T09:24:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T23:24:13","slug":"garden-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2021\/04\/04\/garden-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Birds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crested Pigeons have increased from the odd bird a few years ago, to the point where we now see small flocks feeding or perched on power lines. They are frequently seen in the garden too, and are often taken by marauding Brown Goshawks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix25\/crested3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix25\/crested3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"457\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Common Bronzewings have always been occasional garden visitors, and like the Cresteds clean up any feed grain left by cattle in the paddock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix25\/bronze3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix25\/bronze3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"469\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scarlet Honeyeaters have been very numerous this season, and this nice male has been competing with the New Hollands for nectar from the grevillea and hakea flowers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix25\/scarl1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix25\/scarl1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix25\/scarl2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix25\/scarl2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"744\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Click to enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crested Pigeons have increased from the odd bird a few years ago, to the point where we now see small flocks feeding or perched on power lines. They are frequently seen in the garden too, and are often taken by marauding Brown Goshawks. Common Bronzewings have always been occasional garden visitors, and like the Cresteds &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2021\/04\/04\/garden-birds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Birds.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}