{"id":95,"date":"2007-08-08T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2007-08-08T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T18:01:00","slug":"bathing-bluebirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"Bathing Bluebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/BathingBBs4-716474.jpg\" ><img style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/BathingBBs4-716099.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/BathingBBs2-765318.jpg\" ><img style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/BathingBBs2-764695.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Late yesterday afternoon, in near 100-degree heat, a Bluebird family visited one of our birdbaths. I first saw two juveniles sitting together on the rim, as I happened to pass a window, and stopped to watch. One of the two sipped a drink. The other, after a moment, jumped in all the way and splashed around vigorously. A few minutes later, I looked again, and both parents were in the water, splashing around, with one juvenile sitting on the rim. <\/p>\n<p>When Clate got these pictures, I couldn\u2019t help thinking the male parent was trying to show the reluctant youngster how it\u2019s done \u2013 but it\u2019s more likely they were all hopping in and out, and we just happened to see them at these times. Anyway, I\u2019m sure it felt good in this relentless, steamy heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday afternoon, in near 100-degree heat, a Bluebird family visited one of our birdbaths. I first saw two juveniles sitting together on the rim, as I happened to pass a window, and stopped to watch. One of the two sipped a drink. The other, after a moment, jumped in all the way and splashed [&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\/95"}],"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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}