{"id":17086,"date":"2019-05-29T18:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17086"},"modified":"2019-06-01T13:17:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T17:17:28","slug":"molothrus-ater-brown-headed-cowbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17086","title":{"rendered":"<em>Molothrus ater<\/em> (Brown-headed Cowbird)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17088\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190529_165985.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17088\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190529_165985-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Molothrus ater&lt;\/em&gt; (Brown-headed Cowbird)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17088\" data-wp-pid=\"17088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190529_165985-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190529_165985-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190529_165985-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190529_165985-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190529_165985-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/img_20190529_165985.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Molothrus ater<\/em> (Brown-headed Cowbird)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t as sharp a picture as I&#8217;d like but it&#8217;s what I was able to get today. Actually, I got pictures of three different birds today. This one, of a brown-headed cowbird (<em>Molothrus ater<\/em>) in the birdbath, a Northern Cardinal (<em>Cardinalis cardinalis<\/em>), and a House Wren (<em>Troglodytes aedon<\/em>). The wren picture is sharper but I thought I had a better chance of re-photographing the wren, so I went with this one. The lack of sharpness is partially due to the low light and the fact that I had to crop the image to get this close, but a small part is due to the movement of the bird. As you can see by the water droplets in the air all around the bird, it is shaking water off of itself, taking a bath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t as sharp a picture as I&#8217;d like but it&#8217;s what I was able to get today. Actually, I got pictures of three different birds today. This one, of a brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) in the birdbath, a Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), and a House Wren (Troglodytes aedon). The wren picture is sharper but &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17086\">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":[48,61,1744,216,1740,1741,652,1743,1742],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086"}],"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=17086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17090,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17086\/revisions\/17090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}