{"id":223,"date":"2010-10-24T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:05:29","slug":"petty-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Petty kings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If only I’d gotten this hairdo…<\/p>\n

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combined with this expression!<\/p>\n

: )<\/p>\n

(I can’t stop giggling at this pic!)<\/p>\n

I wandered around Sandy Hook hoping for my first Brant of the season, but found none, despite they’re being “in” already. Instead I spent the afternoon kicking up Golden Crowned Kinglets from the grass at my feet… such endearing little birds once you get eye level with them. <\/p>\n

Eye level to a kinglet today meant parking myself in a sunny spot in the grass where they were feeding and waiting for them to come close enough… which garnered many a curious glance as I focused my lens at nothing very obvious to most people passing by.<\/p>\n

It strikes me that bird photography, by necessity, is a solitary pursuit… <\/p>\n

The post title refers to a translation of the genus name Regulus to which the kinglets belong; historical names include Flame-crest<\/i> and Fiery-crowned Wren<\/i>. The orange patch is only visible when a bird is excited or challenged by another. I think that’s what the show was about in that top photo, as two birds were feeding very close together at the base of the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If only I’d gotten this hairdo… combined with this expression! : ) (I can’t stop giggling at this pic!) I wandered around Sandy Hook hoping for my first Brant of the season, but found none, despite they’re being “in” already. Instead I spent the afternoon kicking up Golden Crowned Kinglets from the grass at my … Continue reading Petty kings<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,27,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}