{"id":4814,"date":"2026-09-25T18:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:59:45","slug":"red-wattlebird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2026\/09\/25\/red-wattlebird\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Wattlebird."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The waratah is in full bloom, and a Red Wattlebird is taking advantage of the plentiful nectar, the only species of honeyeater to do so in all the years it has flowered. And, it is only for the last couple of years that this has happened. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/wattle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/wattle2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/wattle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/wattle1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And after feeding, a bath to get rid of the stickiness is in order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/wattle3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/wattle3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/wattle4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/garden16\/wattle4b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The waratah is in full bloom, and a Red Wattlebird is taking advantage of the plentiful nectar, the only species of honeyeater to do so in all the years it has flowered. And, it is only for the last couple of years that this has happened. Click to enlarge. And after feeding, a bath to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2026\/09\/25\/red-wattlebird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Wattlebird.<\/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-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","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=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4818,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}