{"id":7384,"date":"2020-04-13T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2020-04-13T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:38:53","slug":"red-breasted-nuthatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7384","title":{"rendered":"Red-Breasted Nuthatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new visitor has been coming to our bird feeder. Difficult to take a photo because it doesn\u2019t stay still very long and is too far away.<\/p>\n<p>The bird quickly enters the bird feeder, snags a seed, exits, and flies into the oak or pine trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Red-BreastedNuthatch_IMG_8512.jpg\" alt=\"Red-Breasted Nuthatch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We built the bird feeder out of a wire-coated basket and some scrap wood. We hoped the wire would keep out the squirrels. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Squirrel_IMG_5756.jpg\" alt=\"Squirrel in bird feeder\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/Squirrel_IMG_1264.jpg\" alt=\"Squirrel in bird feeder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I was able to capture a photo of the visitor, not a great one. But it was good enough that I could use it to identify the bird.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"\/images\/RedBreastedNuthatch_IMG_8514.jpg\" alt=\"Red-Breasted Nuthatch\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Red-Breasted Nuthatch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/red-breasted-nuthatch\" >Audubon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hww.ca\/en\/wildlife\/birds\/red-breasted-nuthatch.html\" >Canadian Wildlife Federation, Hinterland Who\u2019s Who<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laspilitas.com\/California_birds\/Nuthatches\/Red_breasted_nuthatch\/Red_breasted_nuthatch_in_your_garden.htm\" >Las Pilitas Nursery<\/a>\u2013California Native Plants<\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new visitor has been coming to our bird feeder. Difficult to take a photo because it doesn\u2019t stay still very long and is too far away. The bird quickly enters the bird feeder, snags a seed, exits, and flies into the oak or pine trees. We built the bird feeder out of a wire-coated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red-Breasted Nuthatch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,30,9,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-and-bunnies","category-gardens","category-nature","category-squirrel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7392,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}