{"id":105,"date":"2011-04-09T21:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T05:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taojones.net\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-04-10T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:30:39","slug":"redwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Redwing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;\"><a title=\"Redwing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tygh\/5604748339\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5184\/5604748339_4e532dd4c9.jpg\" alt=\"Redwing by Tygh\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tygh\/5604748339\/\">Redwing<\/a>, a photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tygh\/\">Tygh<\/a> on Flickr.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I was out at Jackson Bottom today doing some birding and I happened to catch this blackbird near the path.<\/p>\n<p>At the time I took the photo, I didn&#8217;t notice the red in feathers on his back. Once I got the picture home and put it up on my larger screen, the scalloped red pattern began to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>I sometimes take these shots through my wife&#8217;s birding scope and it is really a matter of luck if the shot comes out. The subject really has to want his photo taken and be willing to sit long enough for me to fire off a half dozen pics. I basically ride the focus ring on the scope to compensate for what is going on with all the lenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redwing, a photo by Tygh on Flickr. I was out at Jackson Bottom today doing some birding and I happened to catch this blackbird near the path. At the time I took the photo, I didn&#8217;t notice the red in feathers on his back. Once I got the picture home and put it up on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/taojones.net\/?p=105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Redwing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taojones.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}