{"id":1166,"date":"2008-02-07T23:45:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1166"},"modified":"2008-02-07T23:45:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T04:45:48","slug":"brazen-little-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1166","title":{"rendered":"Brazen Little Dickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuteoverload.com\/\">Cute Overload<\/a>.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve ever attracted chickadees to your feeders, you know how they are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/mfrost.typepad.com\/cute_overload\/images\/2008\/02\/04\/bird.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Chickadees man&#8230;they&#8217;re like that.&nbsp; I get scolded in the winter months when I go outside and there isn&#8217;t anything in the feeders.&nbsp; And then I get sassed on the way back inside after I&#8217;ve filled them up again.&nbsp; But they&#8217;re lots of fun to watch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Attract them with sunflower seeds, and a feeder that they can hang off of, but larger birds can&#8217;t.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll hear them before you see them, their distinctive <em>deedeedee<\/em> call coming from here and there in a nearby tree.&nbsp; If you watch carefully you&#8217;ll see them flit from one branch to another, getting closer and closer to the feeder.&nbsp; Then they&#8217;ll dart in like little arrows, grab a seed and fly back to a nearby branch.&nbsp; They put the seed between their feet and whack it a few times with their beak and then pry out the innards.&nbsp; Then it&#8217;s back to the feeder for another one.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Cute Overload.&nbsp; If you&#8217;ve ever attracted chickadees to your feeders, you know how they are&#8230; &nbsp; Chickadees man&#8230;they&#8217;re like that.&nbsp; I get scolded in the winter months when I go outside and there isn&#8217;t anything in the feeders.&nbsp; And then I get sassed on the way back inside after I&#8217;ve filled them up again.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}