{"id":8781,"date":"2015-08-18T07:54:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2015-08-24T17:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T22:51:46","slug":"american-goldfinches-spinus-tristis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8781","title":{"rendered":"American Goldfinches (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8783\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150818_110897.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8783\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150818_110897-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"American Goldfinches (Spinus tristis)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8783\" data-wp-pid=\"8783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150818_110897-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150818_110897-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150818_110897-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150818_110897-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150818_110897-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/img_20150818_110897.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Goldfinches (<em>Spinus tristis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There were a bunch of American goldfinches in the back yard this morning. I wouldn&#8217;t say there was a flock of them, but there were more than two. I would say &#x201c;a family&#x201d; but I have no idea if they were related in any way. I&#8217;m not nearly the birder that my brothers are, but I&#8217;m going to say that the bird higher up in this picture is a female rather than an immature bird. There is another, lower down, that I know is a male. They were, as you can see, in the black-eyed Susans, just on the edge of our patio, so fairly close. This was taken through the glass, kitchen door, though, which accounts for some of the softness in the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were a bunch of American goldfinches in the back yard this morning. I wouldn&#8217;t say there was a flock of them, but there were more than two. I would say &#x201c;a family&#x201d; but I have no idea if they were related in any way. I&#8217;m not nearly the birder that my brothers are, but &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=8781\">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\/8781"}],"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=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8784,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions\/8784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}