{"id":2209,"date":"2022-11-20T08:35:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T08:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2022-11-20T08:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T08:35:17","slug":"feeding-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/20\/feeding-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With my technique of throwing fat balls across the garden to be nearer the field I seem to have encouraged a male pheasant to visit everyday and a female to wander around. The seeds i put out entice magpies, black birds and ravens and the peanuts in their holders mean i have black headed tits, the occasional nuthatch, casual robin (who would just come to see if I was in not just for the food) a wren (which was a huge surprise) and a few other visitors that are rare to see.<\/p>\n<p>Of course above them all is the hawk who goes for the frogs, and rabbits who are beginning to come back after a few years of very few. But then I guess there is a hawk circling above us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my technique of throwing fat balls across the garden to be nearer the field I seem to have encouraged a male pheasant to visit everyday and a female to wander around. The seeds i put out entice magpies, black birds and ravens and the peanuts in their holders mean i have black headed tits,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,85,328,539,611,814],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-black-headed-tit","tag-blackbird","tag-hawk","tag-pheasant","tag-robin","tag-wren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}