{"id":21681,"date":"2026-01-12T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21681"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:44:52","slug":"daily_3967_-_blackbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/daily_3967_-_blackbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3967 &#8211; blackbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3967_birds.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plenty of snow has brought plenty of birds to the feeder. This year it&#8217;s mostly blackbirds, with only occasional visits from others.<\/p>\n<p>Blackbirds are not good at sharing. The main feeder is a four-sided construction, and there&#8217;s easily room for four large birds. Do they use it that way? No. Usually I see at most two birds eating, with a whole bunch hanging around and waiting for their turn: some on the feeder stand, others on the clothes drying rack, even more in the trees nearby. They don&#8217;t even wait nicely &#8211; instead they interrupt each other and chase each other away. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3967_birds_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of snow has brought plenty of birds to the feeder. This year it&#8217;s mostly blackbirds, with only occasional visits from others. Blackbirds are not good at sharing. The main feeder is a four-sided construction, and there&#8217;s easily room for four large birds. Do they use it that way? No. Usually I see at most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768,779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21775,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21681\/revisions\/21775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}