{"id":280,"date":"2009-02-15T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2009-02-15T09:21:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T17:21:37","slug":"three-weeks-from-now-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Three weeks from now, last year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had Violet-green Swallows and Western Bluebirds in our yard, checking out the nest box on the front of our house.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, on March 8th, there were migratory birds here.<\/p>\n<p>What brought this timing issue to my attention was whining about spring, which is what I was doing yesterday.\u00a0 To cheer me up, Dan looked to see when the birds arrived last year, and told me of the impending arrival in only three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But, there&#8217;s two feet of snow on the ground out there!!!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_282\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"size-full wp-image-282\" title=\"snow1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/snow1.jpg\" alt=\"Little white dots in the picture are fat lazy floating snowflakes\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snow1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snow1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little white dots in the picture are fat lazy floating snowflakes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While our seed feeders provide sustenance for the chickadees and their regular winter friends, swallows and bluebirds eat bugs.\u00a0 There are spiders making their way into the house in pretty large numbers, providing great hunting opportunities for Mishkin, as well as the occasional snack.\u00a0 But there is a distinct lack of the type of bugs which would feed migratory insectivores.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_287\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"size-full wp-image-287\" title=\"snow21\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/snow21.jpg\" alt=\"Solar panels with the latest sprinkling of flakes, and more falling\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snow21.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snow21-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solar panels with the latest sprinkling of flakes, and more falling<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So&#8230; in three weeks this will all be gone, right?\u00a0 Hmmmmmmm<\/p>\n<p>The question is what to do in the meantime?\u00a0 Our driveway is still pretty much a mess, but the inside of the house is cozy, and it is Sunday, and I&#8217;m making pizza for lunch.\u00a0 Life is good, even if it is still winter outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had Violet-green Swallows and Western Bluebirds in our yard, checking out the nest box on the front of our house.\u00a0 That&#8217;s right, on March 8th, there were migratory birds here. What brought this timing issue to my attention was whining about spring, which is what I was doing yesterday.\u00a0 To cheer me up, Dan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}