{"id":600,"date":"2010-11-21T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T10:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2010-11-21T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T10:50:19","slug":"miss-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Miss Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like this picture, I was actually trying to catch the acrobatic squirrel which is currently raiding Angela-next-door&#8217;s peanut feeder, but this shows just how well camouflaged a wee ball of yellow and blue feathers can be in a bare November garden.\u00a0 He&#8217;s in the cotoneaster.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PB200001.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-601\" title=\"Watch the birdie\" src=\"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PB200001-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Watch the birdie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watch the birdie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Incidentally,\u00a0 I was eating my cranberry scone at Vane Farm yesterday when I noticed a recording of\u00a0 200+ waxwings in Dunfermline that same day.\u00a0 If you live near me and notice a sudden influx of punky looking pink birds with red blobs on their wings, phone me and I&#8217;ll be round.\u00a0 I do not care if you have not done the hoovering.\u00a0 Whilst at VF we did see geese flying in to roost, which was quite spectacular.\u00a0 They were too far away for me to identify, not yet having learned how to spread jam and focus a &#8216;scope at the same time.\u00a0 I&#8217;m keen but I&#8217;m not obsessive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this picture, I was actually trying to catch the acrobatic squirrel which is currently raiding Angela-next-door&#8217;s peanut feeder, but this shows just how well camouflaged a wee ball of yellow and blue feathers can be in a bare November garden.\u00a0 He&#8217;s in the cotoneaster. Incidentally,\u00a0 I was eating my cranberry scone at Vane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-wildlife","category-fife","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}