{"id":24572,"date":"2016-08-20T18:19:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T22:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24572"},"modified":"2016-08-22T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T18:05:54","slug":"wild-wild-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24572","title":{"rendered":"Wild Wild Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a couple of the wild critters around the new house. <\/p>\n

Someday when I get my trail camera I'll see if those paw prints in the mud were dog or coyote.<\/p>\n

Until then, birds!<\/p>\n

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\nNikon D90, 70-300mm\n<\/p>\n

Pileated woodpecker. There is at least one pair of these in the neighborhood. I've seen them together a few times while out running. This guy was perforating a tree about 20' from my desk.<\/p>\n

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\nNikon D90, 70-300mm\n<\/p>\n

This little fellow is a blue grosbeak. He's a regular at the ground under the feeder - picking up what the swarms of sloppy sparrows throw on the ground.<\/p>\n

Took me a long time to ID him since all of my books and all of the pics on the web<\/a> say that a blue grosbeak should be bright blue, like a bluebird. This guy is so dark he looks black without binoculars or a big zoom lens.<\/p>\n

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\nNikon D90, 70-300mm\n<\/p>\n

Good old mourning dove, hiding his tail behind a clump of dirt.<\/p>\n

That's what our 'yard' looks like. It's bare Carolina clay, absolutely overflowing with rocks. Not sure what we're going to do with it yet.<\/p>\n

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\nNikon D90, 70-300mm\n<\/p>\n

Lots of hummingbirds - including one that keeps getting stuck in our garage. Luckily, she'll land on the end of a broom so I can shuttle her outside without much drama.<\/p>\n

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\nNikon D90, 70-300mm\n<\/p>\n

Sometimes, they perch in the tree above the feeder and wait to attack any other hummingbirds who come close.<\/p>\n

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\nNikon D90, 70-300mm\n<\/p>\n

Here's a nice pair of tits. (DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?!!!)<\/p>\n

A big-ass vulture and I had a stare-off last weekend. As I was walking out of the garage, he flew across the driveway and landed in a tree, about 20 feet up. He got bored with me after a couple of minutes and whooshed off to find something stinky to stick his head in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are a couple of the wild critters around the new house. Someday when I get my trail camera I'll see if those paw prints in the mud were dog or coyote. Until then, birds! Nikon D90, 70-300mm Pileated woodpecker. There is at least one pair of these in the neighborhood. I've seen them together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-project-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24572"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24597,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions\/24597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}