{"id":2370,"date":"2012-06-26T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2012-06-27T00:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T07:41:31","slug":"american-goldfinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2370","title":{"rendered":"American Goldfinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it has only been a few days, sometimes that is all it takes. On checking the Tree Swallow nests today there was no activity. Hopefully all the young have fledged successfully, but the window of opportunity for photographing food deliveries is gone. Conditions were not ideal this afternoon, but one of the Willow Flycatchers was active and I caught a glimpse of a Grosbeak. The only bird that took time out to pose for me,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2371\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2371\" title=\"American Goldfinch\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO012.jpg\" alt=\"American Goldfinch\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO012.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO012-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO012-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO012-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Goldfinch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230; was one of two American Goldfinch that were busy chasing each other around.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2372\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2372\" title=\"American Goldfinch\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO013.jpg\" alt=\"American Goldfinch\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO013.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO013-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO013-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AMGO013-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Goldfinch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That was OK because it has probably been a year since I tried getting any photos of one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it has only been a few days, sometimes that is all it takes. On checking the Tree Swallow nests today there was no activity. Hopefully all the young have fledged successfully, but the window of opportunity for photographing food deliveries is gone. Conditions were not ideal this afternoon, but one of the Willow Flycatchers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Goldfinch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,160],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-north-40","tag-american-goldfinch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}