{"id":43,"date":"2008-01-16T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/birdwatching-vollmer-style.html"},"modified":"2008-01-16T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:53:00","slug":"birdwatching-vollmer-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/birdwatching-vollmer-style.html","title":{"rendered":"Birdwatching, Vollmer Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This winter, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Hairy_Woodpecker.html\">hairy woodpecker<\/a> started visiting my suet feeder that hangs right outside my kitchen window.  I&#8217;ve had lots of birds come by over the years, but this was a first.  It visited a couple weeks ago, but too much sudden movement from in the kitchen scared it away. Yesterday was the first time it had returned in a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So this time I moved S-L-O-W-L-Y and got my camera, stood at the <em>back<\/em> of my kitchen, and kicked my 12x zoom into gear. This is what I got, which is pretty good in my humble opinion.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/20080115HairyWoodpecker\/photo#5156118082888317874\"><img src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com\/vollmerdp\/R442E_6Gu7I\/AAAAAAAAKvA\/bBsLFfHMOiU\/s400\/IMG_5114.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr> <\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/20080115HairyWoodpecker\">2008 01 15 Ha&#8230;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/vollmerdp\/20080115HairyWoodpecker\/\">Visit here for a couple more pics of the bird. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter, a hairy woodpecker started visiting my suet feeder that hangs right outside my kitchen window. I&#8217;ve had lots of birds come by over the years, but this was a first. It visited a couple weeks ago, but too much sudden movement from in the kitchen scared it away. Yesterday was the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[31,32],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/if-you-build-it-they-will-come.html","url_meta":{"origin":43,"position":0},"title":"If you build it, they will come&#8230;","date":"30 January 08","format":false,"excerpt":"About a week ago I rearranged my bird feeders. I also changed the type of bird feed I offered, from a general small seed mix to only black oil sunflower seeds. 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