{"id":6454,"date":"2016-05-06T11:35:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2016-05-07T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T13:45:04","slug":"fledgling-and-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/fledgling-and-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"Fledgling and Adult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted an image of a <a href=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/may-i-have-some-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">House Finch feeding a fledgling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today it&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/House_Sparrow\/id\" target=\"_blank\">House Sparrow<\/a> and its fledgling.\u00a0 Apparently, I&#8217;m learning this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/feederwatch.org\/blog\/do-feeder-halos-keep-house-sparrows-at-bay\/?__hstc=75100365.a56f701d775819546c624f815171e7df.1461343986111.1462472998402.1462548445034.5&amp;__hssc=75100365.2.1462548445034&amp;__hsfp=3677099335#_ga=1.169962211.2145308533.1461343986\" target=\"_blank\">relatively unpopular species the more I read<\/a>.\u00a0 They seem to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/page.aspx?pid=1258\" target=\"_blank\">take over nesting boxes of other species<\/a> and chase away other birds from feeder areas.\u00a0 We certainly do see quite a few House Sparrows at our feeders.\u00a0 I did enjoy watching them yesterday with their young.<\/p>\n<p>This one was also feeding it&#8217;s fledgling &#8211; just as yesterday&#8217;s House Finch &#8211; and it appears sitting on the same branch as in the other shot.\u00a0 I like this shot of them just looking directly at one another.\u00a0 It&#8217;s lovely to be able to see the comparison of fledgling and adult side by side.\u00a0 If you look closely you can pick up hints of the rain drops in the background.\u00a0 Rain did not deter the many, many birds that visited our feeders yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6455\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5426T.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5426T.jpg 900w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5426T-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted an image of a House Finch feeding a fledgling. Today it&#8217;s a House Sparrow and its fledgling.\u00a0 Apparently, I&#8217;m learning this is a relatively unpopular species the more I read.\u00a0 They seem to take over nesting boxes of other species and chase away other birds from feeder areas.\u00a0 We certainly do see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1055,922,11,300],"tags":[1060,22,21,1059,1061,1215,1018,1058],"class_list":["post-6454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-birds","category-in-the-garden","category-nature","category-portraiture","tag-baby-bird","tag-bird","tag-fledgling","tag-house-sparrow","tag-magnolia","tag-nature","tag-nature-photography","tag-sparrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6458,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions\/6458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}