{"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\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdwatching, Vollmer Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

This winter, a hairy woodpecker<\/a> started visiting my suet feeder that hangs right outside my kitchen window. I’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…<\/p>\n

So this time I moved S-L-O-W-L-Y and got my camera, stood at the 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\n\n\n <\/tr>\n\n
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Visit here for a couple more pics of the bird. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This winter, a hairy woodpecker started visiting my suet feeder that hangs right outside my kitchen window. I’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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[31,32],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bird-watching","tag-north-carolina"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t