{"id":90,"date":"2007-04-15T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2007\/04\/15\/90\/"},"modified":"2015-04-03T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T15:44:26","slug":"90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"BIRD BLOG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I put a little bird feeder on my window, just above the air conditioner.  It took a while, but the feeder is now quite popular amidst the local avian population.  The regular customers include a flock of mourning doves, numerous house sparrows, some white-throated sparrows, a pair of cardinals, a blue jay (that barely seems able to balance itself on the air conditioner ledge), and an occasional visit from a tufted titmouse.  I believe that the juncos that winter in the local backyards also stopped by, but with spring finally arriving, they are now headed back to the woods.  There are occasional raids by bands of starlings (although we don\u2019t have any that live nearby).  The noticeable absentees are a pair of northern mockingbirds, and the local robins.  Give those robins credit: they are purists.  They stick to their worms and bugs. They don\u2019t want to mess with grains and carbs; they stick with high-protein.  <\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s an interesting little nature show going on outside my window.  It gets pretty wild some days; these little birdies like to fight over food.  It\u2019s every bird for him or herself.  Even though I keep the feeder stocked, they have a hoarding mentality.  Peck, peck, push, push, get out of my way.  I\u2019ve even seem little birds fighting while flapping their wings in mid-air.  And the mourning doves . . . . they may seem meek and mellow, but I saw one stare down a blue jay, and win!  It\u2019s a bit depressing sometimes; but then again, it all makes me feel a little bit better about the human race.  We don\u2019t behave all that much better than these birdbrains, but we are still better (if not by much).  <\/p>\n<p>When all the bird aggression gets me down, I look for the cardinal pair.  The bright red male has a habit of giving food from its beak to its brownish mate.  No \u201cwham, bam, thank you mam\u201d for these guys, despite their stylish crimson plumage and black masks.  They\u2019re committed to a long-term relationship.  They\u2019re obviously gonna keep momma fed while she tends to the nest and the youngins\u2019.  Ah, family values.  <\/p>\n<p>Here are two shots of some mourning doves chowing down.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jimgworld.com\/beta\/buzzards.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I put a little bird feeder on my window, just above the air conditioner. It took a while, but the feeder is now quite popular amidst the local avian population. The regular customers include a flock of mourning doves, numerous house sparrows, some white-throated sparrows, a pair of cardinals, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}