{"id":1463,"date":"2012-10-17T21:12:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2012-11-07T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:14:00","slug":"red-admiral-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"Red Admiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around noon today, a brightly colored butterfly outside the kitchen window caught my eye \u2013 a Red Admiral. Though they\u2019re widespread and considered common, I haven\u2019t seen them often here. It flew to a dry flower-head on a potted hydrangea on the deck, and stayed there long enough for me to enjoy a nice close view. Its coloring is dramatic \u2013 an uneven band of red-orange marks each upper wing, and the lower wings are edged in the same shade of red-orange. Several large and small white spots dot the upper wing tips, with a very thin edging of white all around the delicately scalloped edges of the wings. The under side of the wings looked more subdued, or muted, with red spots in a row and some faint blue showing among them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around noon today, a brightly colored butterfly outside the kitchen window caught my eye \u2013 a Red Admiral. Though they\u2019re widespread and considered common, I haven\u2019t seen them often here. It flew to a dry flower-head on a potted hydrangea on the deck, and stayed there long enough for me to enjoy a nice close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}