{"id":11413,"date":"2022-05-13T06:39:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2022-05-15T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T19:42:07","slug":"bird-seed-buffet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2022\/05\/bird-seed-buffet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird seed buffet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the morning, before I left the bedroom, Sam called up from downstairs. This is unusual, but there was a sight to see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4619.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4619.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4619-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our bird feeder is squirrel-proof, but not bear-proof (been knocked over and raided twice). And apparently not raccoon-proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This one continued eating shamelessly while we looked at it out the front window. She* leaped down and ran into the woods when we came out the front door. We&#8217;re not sure how she scaled the metal stovepipe baffle that keeps the squirrels out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Somebody said a raccoon seen during the day was probably a female who didn&#8217;t want to leave her cubs (kits?) alone at night. And probably starved for calories.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4620.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4620.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/img_4620-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning, before I left the bedroom, Sam called up from downstairs. This is unusual, but there was a sight to see. Our bird feeder is squirrel-proof, but not bear-proof (been knocked over&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11423,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions\/11423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}