{"id":36300,"date":"2024-02-14T06:15:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T11:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=36300"},"modified":"2024-02-12T02:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T07:16:00","slug":"just-once-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/02\/just-once-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Just once, part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SummerTanager.jpg\" alt=\"summer tanager Piranga rubra peeking from foliage\" width=\"750\" height=\"576\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32185\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This post has changed a bit. First, I had a subject that I realized would fit better later on in the year, and so I rescheduled it. Then I chose another subject, but as I was finalizing that draft, I noticed that it was going to post on a holiday, and thought I might be able to find something more appropriate, and pushed <em>that<\/em> one to next week. So at least we now have something red for Valentine&#8217;s Day, which is probably as close as I&#8217;m going to get.<\/p>\n<p>This is a summer tanager (<em>Piranga rubra<\/em>,) and I probably would have missed it entirely had I not twigged onto the calls that I didn&#8217;t recognize, right behind the car as Mr Bugg and I arrived at the lake for a photo session. I could have stalled this for the first day of summer, which is also when I photographed it, but I didn&#8217;t have anything else that seemed to fit for today. Though if I find something later on, I&#8217;ll use <em>that<\/em> for the first day of summer. No, that&#8217;s on a Friday this year &#8211; never mind.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Lake has a tendency to feature more bird species than I see in my immediate area, despite being only about 12 kilometers away, though if we maintained a well-stocked bird feeder here, that might be different. My attempts to establish some plants that attract more birds have never panned out, but I blame that on the <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/05\/probably-not-many\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seed companies<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post has changed a bit. First, I had a subject that I realized would fit better later on in the year, and so I rescheduled it. Then I chose another subject, but as I was finalizing that draft, I noticed that it was going to post on a holiday, and thought I might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[6803,6802],"class_list":["post-36300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-piranga-rubra","tag-summer-tanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}