{"id":4543,"date":"2013-06-23T17:33:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2013-06-23T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:33:02","slug":"recently-spotted-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4543","title":{"rendered":"Recently Spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been enchanted with the idea that critters could find my garden to be enough of a place of safety that they&#8217;d choose to bear and rear their young here.<\/p>\n<p>I just never knew that they felt <em>that<\/em> safe around us.<\/p>\n<p>Witness what I found when I was picking loganberries (oh good LORD!  Loganberries out my ears!!) this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/hiddennest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/hiddennest.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hiddennest\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4545\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/hiddennest.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/hiddennest-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whose nest it is, and I&#8217;m not certain that it&#8217;s an active nest because I was picking loganberries and no one was fussing at me or dive bombing me.<br \/>\nThat having been said, there&#8217;s been an absolute plague of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White-crowned_Sparrow\">white crowned sparrows<\/a> in that corner of the garden recently.<\/p>\n<p>But there is an egg<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/nestegg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/nestegg.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"nestegg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/nestegg.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/nestegg-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll be tickled to death if it hatches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been enchanted with the idea that critters could find my garden to be enough of a place of safety that they&#8217;d choose to bear and rear their young here. I just never knew that they felt that safe around us. Witness what I found when I was picking loganberries (oh good LORD! Loganberries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-margarets-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}