{"id":5943,"date":"2014-03-07T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5943"},"modified":"2014-03-08T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:43:07","slug":"birds-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5943","title":{"rendered":"Birds, everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vireo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1453\" height=\"1731\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vireo.jpg\" alt=\"vireo\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vireo.jpg 1453w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vireo-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vireo-859x1024.jpg 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Who can identify this bird? Photo by Ken Ilgunas. Update: We think this bird is a pine warbler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how many birds there are around the abbey right now. Partly, no doubt, it&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve been feeding them. Partly, no doubt, it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s spring. But the birds are not just near the feeders. They&#8217;re everywhere \u2014 in the trees, on the fences, working the orchard, raiding the chicken house, waiting in line for the feeding stations on the porches.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to think that, each year, the abbey grounds are becoming better habitat for birds. Each year, we dump more compost and more organic fertilizer pretty much everywhere. We&#8217;ve planted more evergreens for cover and lots of wildflowers. Where there is food and water and shelter, the birds will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who can identify this bird? Photo by Ken Ilgunas. Update: We think this bird is a pine warbler. It&#8217;s amazing how many birds there are around the abbey right now. Partly, no doubt, it&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve been feeding them. Partly, no doubt, it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s spring. But the birds are not just near the feeders. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5943\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birds, everywhere&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5943\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}