{"id":3582,"date":"2014-07-18T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T04:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2014-07-18T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T04:03:45","slug":"bees-goldfinch-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"Bees, Goldfinch &#038; Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year again to start watching the thistle for American Goldfinch feeding on them. That was the goal this afternoon, but things don&#8217;t always go as planned. While I could hear them in the area, no Goldfinch were showing up on the stretch of thistle I was watching.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3583\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3583\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BumbleBee006.jpg\" alt=\"Bumble Bee\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BumbleBee006.jpg 480w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BumbleBee006-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BumbleBee006-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bumble Bee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There were lots of Bumble Bees cooperating though.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3585\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3585\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/AMGO019.jpg\" alt=\"American Goldfinch\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/AMGO019.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/AMGO019-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/AMGO019-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/AMGO019-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Goldfinch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eventually an American Goldfinch did show up\u00a0along with another Bumble\u00a0Bee. While not quite what I was after,\u00a0it does make for an interesting photo.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3586\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3586\" src=\"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dragonfly012.jpg\" alt=\"Dragonfly\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dragonfly012.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dragonfly012-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dragonfly012-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crazym.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Dragonfly012-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dragonfly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To finish things off was this Dragonfly eating a bee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is that time of year again to start watching the thistle for American Goldfinch feeding on them. That was the goal this afternoon, but things don&#8217;t always go as planned. While I could hear them in the area, no Goldfinch were showing up on the stretch of thistle I was watching. There were lots &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bees, Goldfinch &#038; Dragonfly&#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":[9,28],"tags":[104,214,213],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-other-photos","tag-american-goldfinch","tag-bumble-bee","tag-dragonfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","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=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}