{"id":4583,"date":"2013-10-26T23:07:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T04:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2013-10-28T09:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T14:34:45","slug":"female-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4583","title":{"rendered":"Female Cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4585\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/img_20131026_072055.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4585\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/img_20131026_072055-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Female Cardinal\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/img_20131026_072055-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/img_20131026_072055-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/img_20131026_072055-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/img_20131026_072055-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/img_20131026_072055.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female Cardinal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Outside our dining room window is a small garden bed that doesn&#8217;t get a lot of special care. It&#8217;s partially under the eaves so the back is fairly dry but that doesn&#8217;t seem to deter the things growing there. We have a clump of maidenhair fern (<em>Adiantum pedatum<\/em>) that came from our old yard in Gaithersburg and before that from my parents&#8217; house. There is a big clump of blackberry lily (<em>Iris domestica<\/em>) that blooms wonderfully through the middle of the summer. There is also a huge butterfly bush (Buddleja) seedling that would be nicer if it were not so huge. All the spare space in the bed is taken up by Virginia Knotweed (<em>Persicaria virginiana<\/em> var. <em>filiformis<\/em> &#x2018;Painter&#8217;s Palette&#x2019;). That has loads of very tiny red flowers followed by brown seeds (achenes, technically). Apparently, and I didn&#8217;t realize this, the birds love the seeds. I&#8217;ve noticed cardinals (<em>Cardinalis cardinalis<\/em>) and white-throated sparrows (<em>Zonotrichia albicollis<\/em>) on them a few times over the last few days and managed to get a few decent photographs through the dining room window. So far, only the female cardinal has sat high enough in the them to be clearly visible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outside our dining room window is a small garden bed that doesn&#8217;t get a lot of special care. It&#8217;s partially under the eaves so the back is fairly dry but that doesn&#8217;t seem to deter the things growing there. We have a clump of maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum) that came from our old yard in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=4583\">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\/4583"}],"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=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}