{"id":88,"date":"2007-01-15T13:38:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-01-15T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:38:23","slug":"feeding-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we got around 5&#8243; of snow &#8211; the first significant amount for this winter.  As a result many birds are unable to find food in the surrounding fields.  This brings them flocking to our feeders.  In the following picture I count over 50 birds, mostly Sparrows and Juncos, at the feeder or gleaning what the others scattered out.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image87\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/feeding1.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding 1\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>In the second picture they are lined up at the feeder like a bunch of drunks at the bar on Saturday night.  There is lots of pushing, pecking and jostling for position among the small birds but when the Blue Jays or Woodpeckers show up, the little ones back off and wait their turn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image89\" src=\"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/feeding2.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are half way through our second, 130 lb, load of bird seed.  At this rate we will probably use over 500 lbs for the season, possibly more depending on snow cover and temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we got around 5&#8243; of snow &#8211; the first significant amount for this winter. As a result many birds are unable to find food in the surrounding fields. This brings them flocking to our feeders. In the following picture I count over 50 birds, mostly Sparrows and Juncos, at the feeder or gleaning what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom.hise.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}