{"id":8613,"date":"2015-07-24T18:52:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T23:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8613"},"modified":"2015-08-04T06:49:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T11:49:17","slug":"goldfinch-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8613","title":{"rendered":"Goldfinch In The Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8615\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_20150724_109774.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8615\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_20150724_109774-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"American goldfinch (Spinus tristis) on Verbina bonariensis\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8615\" data-wp-pid=\"8615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_20150724_109774-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_20150724_109774-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_20150724_109774-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_20150724_109774-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_20150724_109774-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/img_20150724_109774.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American goldfinch (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>) on <em>Verbina bonariensis<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were a lot of American goldfinches (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>) around this evening. Actually, the bird activity seemed higher than usual overall. I don&#8217;t know if it was because of the heat and the open water of our bird bath, but that seemed to be part of it. We had cardinals, goldfinches, a immature titmouse, and catbirds over the course of about 15 minutes. This isn&#8217;t the sharpest picture ever but we especially enjoy the goldfinches when they are on the <em>Verbina bonariensis<\/em> (purple vervain). The stems are generally strong enough to hold them up  but they wobble back and forth as the birds move. Sometimes they are a little tough to spot because of the yellow black-eyed Susans behind them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a lot of American goldfinches (Spinus tristis) around this evening. Actually, the bird activity seemed higher than usual overall. I don&#8217;t know if it was because of the heat and the open water of our bird bath, but that seemed to be part of it. We had cardinals, goldfinches, a immature titmouse, and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8613\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613"}],"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=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}