{"id":1601,"date":"2008-06-20T22:43:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2013-06-08T17:26:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T22:26:11","slug":"well-guess-who-flew-out-of-the-nest-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Well, guess who flew out of the nest today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/baby_robin_32278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>It is with great joy that I discovered an empty nest when I came home from work today. The four baby robins that were nesting above one of my motion sensor lights are out and about! In fact, I don&#8217;t know if they even return to the nest at this point. They&#8217;re all feet, have dull colors as natural camouflage, and are still being tutored on flying and pecking for their own food&#8230;but they&#8217;re out of the nest.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/baby_robin_32254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>They still have those little white tufts of downy feathers and that downward tilt to their beak that makes them resemble grumpy old men! I spotted two of these little birdies but haven&#8217;t walked around enough to find the other two. We have so many trees here that I might never find them. I was going to mow the lawn tomorrow, but get to put that off so I don&#8217;t mistakenly find one with the mower.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the nesting part of this story was a huge success. I&#8217;m glad I climbed up and took photos of their parents feeding them when I did; that time came and went pretty quickly! As a parent myself, I know just how that goes. At the moment we&#8217;re transferring videotapes of our little boys to DVD and it&#8217;s amazing to watch videos of PJ from only a year and a half ago, when he was a newborn. I don&#8217;t even want to think of what it&#8217;ll be like when our two boys leave the nest! I&#8217;m told that time is coming faster than we think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with great joy that I discovered an empty nest when I came home from work today. The four baby robins that were nesting above one of my motion sensor lights are out and about! In fact, I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1601\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}