{"id":962,"date":"2012-07-10T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/?p=962"},"modified":"2012-07-10T21:14:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:14:51","slug":"little-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2012\/07\/10\/little-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Little blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In other news, this little guy deserves more exposure. We were sat there on Sunday afternoon, when suddenly there was a <em>thud<\/em> and a little <em>tap<\/em> on the wooden floor. We got up to see a rather startled baby blue tit sitting there by the back door. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/7528993784\/\" title=\"Baby blue by Pommiebastards, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8167\/7528993784_bc6f1dd614.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Baby blue\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He wasn&#8217;t moving, so I picked him up and stroked his head (which, it has to be said, was missing a few feathers) and, because it appeared that there was no way he was going to let go of my forefinger, got Jenny to put some ground peanuts* and water on the garden table for him. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pommiebastards\/7528995086\/\" title=\"Jenny and the bluetit by Pommiebastards, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8018\/7528995086_da8beda128.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" alt=\"Jenny and the bluetit\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally I got him off my finger and on to the table, and we hung around to scare away any cats that might be on the prowl for helpless birdlife. I got my camera and took a few photos, somewhat relieved when he startled at the shutter snap. <\/p>\n<p>Eventually he decided he&#8217;d had enough of our hospitality and flew up into the trees, where he perched and twittered for a while before flying off again.<\/p>\n<p>I think I saw him back on the peanut feeder this morning, so all&#8217;s well in the urban jungle.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>*Please don&#8217;t leave out whole peanuts. Tits can joke on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other news, this little guy deserves more exposure. We were sat there on Sunday afternoon, when suddenly there was a thud and a little tap on the wooden floor. We got up to see a rather startled baby blue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2012\/07\/10\/little-blue\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-helpless-creatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}