{"id":242,"date":"2008-08-03T02:46:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T09:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/242"},"modified":"2008-08-03T02:50:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T09:50:52","slug":"things-i-saw-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/things-i-saw-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I saw today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanThe goldfinches are back! <\/em><\/p>\n

A pair of these cute little birds (Washington’s state bird, come to find out)<\/em> found my feeder in the spring and I was so delighted by their vibrant yellow color and beautiful song.\u00c2\u00a0 But they sort of disappeared during June and July – so I was excited to see a whole family of them today.\u00c2\u00a0 I actually heard them before I saw them.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Listen…<\/em><\/p>\n

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I decided to explore a nearby empty\u00c2\u00a0field\/wooded lot\u00c2\u00a0that backs onto a wetlands park, just to see if there was anything interesting\u00c2\u00a0(before someone sells and builds on it)<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0A few pines and maples, a couple of apple trees, lots of wild blackberries, scotchbroom, yarrow and\u00c2\u00a0and such…\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 even some wild pink roses climing over a tree.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But the pink that really caught my attention was the wild sweet peas<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 They are everywhere right now.<\/p>\n

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\nAs I came to a clearing near the edge of the wetlands, I a hawk started crying out. I could see him way at the top of a tall pine…. he kept up the noise – I don’t think he liked me wandering back there, because he made a big swoop around the field, circling me (staying up high) and landing back in the tree.<\/p>\n

\"Hawk\"I tried to catch a good picture of him in flight but they were all a bit blurry. He sat there yelling at me some more, and then made another cirlce around, so I decided to leave him in peace…. and as I left his view, he was quiet again. It’s not lilke I was going to grab his lunch or anything….<\/p>\n

So that’s what I saw today.\u00c2\u00a0 You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The goldfinches are back! A pair of these cute little birds (Washington’s state bird, come to find out) found my feeder in the spring and I was so delighted by their vibrant yellow color and beautiful song.\u00c2\u00a0 But they sort of disappeared during June and July – so I was excited to see a whole … Continue reading Things I saw today<\/span> →<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}