{"id":8069,"date":"2016-12-10T22:42:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T21:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=8069"},"modified":"2022-01-26T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:08:47","slug":"daily_753_-_goldfinches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2016\/12\/10\/daily_753_-_goldfinches\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 753 &#8211; goldfinches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0753_goldfinches.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><br \/>\nThe goldfinches come in swarms. All other visitors to our bird feeder &#8211; great tits, blue tits, nuthatches &#8211; come singly or in small groups. When goldfinches come, there&#8217;s at least half a dozen of them on the feeder itself, and more hanging around and twittering in the branches of nearby trees. The most I&#8217;ve seen at and around the feeder was 20 goldfinches altogether.<\/p>\n<p>They tolerate each others&#8217; company, but not that of other birds. When a gang of goldfinches occupies the feeder and a tit tries to join in, they won&#8217;t even let it land. But nuthatches are apparently above them in the pecking order &#8211; when one of those arrives, the goldfinches take flight.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason all these birds want the sunflower seeds and nothing else, and the peanuts that used to be so popular now hang there uneaten. You&#8217;d think that the tits would go eat the peanuts, which they used to love, when they can&#8217;t get access to the sunflower seeds &#8211; but no, they&#8217;d rather just leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goldfinches come in swarms. All other visitors to our bird feeder &#8211; great tits, blue tits, nuthatches &#8211; come singly or in small groups. When goldfinches come, there&#8217;s at least half a dozen of them on the feeder itself, and more hanging around and twittering in the branches of nearby trees. The most I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768,779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069","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=8069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8072,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions\/8072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}