{"id":1077,"date":"2007-05-27T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:33:45","slug":"swift-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Swift rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/swift.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069049104925856530\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/swift-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I know the photo is awful, but that sooty black blob in the middle of the towel is a chimney swift that was caught in our furnace today. I was down in the basement late this afternoon changing pooty boxes when I heard this odd scratching sound coming from the furnace pipe. Sure enough when my husband took the pipe leading from the chimney off, down under the cover of the furnace lay this very quiet swift. He scooped it out and we went outside and set it free.<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">We usually have a half-dozen or so chimney swifts chattering away over the neighborhood and just yesterday I was wondering alound to my husband about where they nest and roost for the night.  Not many people have chimneys they can use anymore.  Chimney swifts aren&#8217;t able to perch like other birds because of the way their feet are arranged &#8211; they cling to vertical surfaces and build their half-saucer shaped nests from twigs and other materials glued together with their own spit.  Neat!  The DH will get a cap for our chimney so another doesn&#8217;t find its way in, but I do wonder what it was doing in there in the first place.  I may have to have a look and see if I can spot the beginnings of a nest in our chimney.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know the photo is awful, but that sooty black blob in the middle of the towel is a chimney swift that was caught in our furnace today. I was down in the basement late this afternoon changing pooty boxes when I heard this odd scratching sound coming from the furnace pipe. Sure enough when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1077\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swift rescue<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}