{"id":11590,"date":"2016-12-27T11:53:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2016-12-29T21:58:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T02:58:18","slug":"american-goldfinch-spinus-tristis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11590","title":{"rendered":"American Goldfinch (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11592\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161227_134666.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11592\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161227_134666-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11592\" data-wp-pid=\"11592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161227_134666-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161227_134666-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161227_134666-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161227_134666-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161227_134666-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_20161227_134666.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Goldfinch (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love days when I get sunrise pictures. Sunset pictures are nice but I can&#8217;t rely on their being a good sunset. Once I have pictures of the sunrise, though, I don&#8217;t have to worry about getting a picture later in the day. If there turns out to be no sunset, they I&#8217;ve missed the daylight. But if there&#8217;s no sunrise to photograph, I still have the whole day ahead of me.<\/p>\n<p>So, after getting a nice sunrise pictures this morning, I was happy to take some pictures of birds in the back yard. This is an American goldfinch (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>) on black-eyed Susans (<em>Rudbeckia hirta<\/em>) along the edge of the back patio. Goldfinches lose their bright yellow color in the winter, but they&#8217;re still pretty little birds. I really enjoyed watching them sit on the thin stems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love days when I get sunrise pictures. Sunset pictures are nice but I can&#8217;t rely on their being a good sunset. Once I have pictures of the sunrise, though, I don&#8217;t have to worry about getting a picture later in the day. If there turns out to be no sunset, they I&#8217;ve missed the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11590\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11593,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/11593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}