{"id":12491,"date":"2017-06-19T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T20:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2017-06-20T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T15:53:10","slug":"american-goldfinches-spinus-tristis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12491","title":{"rendered":"American Goldfinches (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12493\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170619_142824.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12493\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170619_142824-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"American Goldfinches (Spinus tristis)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12493\" data-wp-pid=\"12493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170619_142824-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170619_142824-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170619_142824-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170619_142824-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170619_142824-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_20170619_142824.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Goldfinches (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We have a fair amount of <em>Verbena bonariensis<\/em> growing around the yard. It&#8217;s somewhat of a weed but for the most part, we let it go, just keeping it barely within bounds. There are a few reasons for us letting it go. First, of course, is that it&#8217;s pretty on its own. I mean, the purple adds a bit of contrast to all the green in the early summer and it&#8217;s generally still in bloom when the black-eyed Susans really start to go crazy. But I think the main reason is that the American Goldfinches (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>) really seem to like it. Usually I&#8217;ve been unable to get close enough to get even a poor photo of them before they fly away but this afternoon I got a reasonable picture showing three finches. They are such lovely birds and we enjoy watching them bounce around on the tall stems of the <em>Verbina<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a fair amount of Verbena bonariensis growing around the yard. It&#8217;s somewhat of a weed but for the most part, we let it go, just keeping it barely within bounds. There are a few reasons for us letting it go. First, of course, is that it&#8217;s pretty on its own. I mean, the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12491\">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":[4,3],"tags":[61,29,103,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491"}],"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=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12496,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions\/12496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}