{"id":226,"date":"2011-06-06T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T05:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2011-06-06T15:31:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T05:31:37","slug":"birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When out and about recently on a warm, sunny winter day I ran into some very photogenic birds. One alighted on a River Cat and wouldn&#8217;t budge.\u00c2\u00a0Once settled, it obligingly looked directly at my camera.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the CBD I stopped by the City Botanic Gardens. Walking along the path I heard loud chirping. On investigation, I found a Noisy Miner chick! Being noisy, indeed. It hadn&#8217;t quite got the hang of flying yet and kept choosing twigs for which it was too heavy. I photographed it for a while, until Mummy turned up. Who wasn&#8217;t at all pleased with me and my camera, and thus proceeded to fight me off with energetic scratches and flapping wings. I got the message and took the final shot of her feeding her chick from further away.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-226 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=228'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Landing-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-228\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-228'>\n\t\t\t\tMy transport&#8217;s arrived!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=227'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hitch-hiking-001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hitch-hiking-001-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hitch-hiking-001.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-227'>\n\t\t\t\tThis ferry is going where I&#8217;m going&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=230'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Noisy-Miner-Chick-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-230\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Noisy-Miner-Chick-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Noisy-Miner-Chick-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Noisy-Miner-Chick.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-230'>\n\t\t\t\tMummy? I&#8217;m not sure about this&#8230;.?\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=229'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Learning-to-Fly-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Learning-to-Fly-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Learning-to-Fly-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Learning-to-Fly.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-229'>\n\t\t\t\tWill this twig carry my weight?\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=231'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hungry-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hungry-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hungry-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Hungry.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231'>\n\t\t\t\tDinner, finally!\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When out and about recently on a warm, sunny winter day I ran into some very photogenic birds. One alighted on a River Cat and wouldn&#8217;t budge.\u00c2\u00a0Once settled, it obligingly looked directly at my camera. Back in the CBD I stopped by the City Botanic Gardens. Walking along the path I heard loud chirping. On &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/?p=226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fractalthoughts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}