{"id":17559,"date":"2017-06-14T19:18:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=17559"},"modified":"2017-06-14T19:20:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T02:20:12","slug":"the-hummingbird-and-the-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2017\/06\/the-hummingbird-and-the-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"The squirrel and the hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The squirrel.<\/p>\n

I wish the squirrel had stayed where he was because the light was perfect there. But he moved up the tree, so unfortunately, I was shooting into the sun.<\/p>\n

But the action was happening and I didn’t want to miss anything!<\/p>\n

If you’ve never heard a hummingbird … when they fly close, they sound like the most gigantic bee that ever was. The sound from their wing action is incredibly loud for such a little creature. And it nearly always makes me cover my head in a “what size bee is that and please don’t sting me” kind of thing.<\/p>\n

I was working and the slider was open behind me when I heard the hummer. <\/p>\n

Then I heard the squirrel. <\/p>\n

Back and forth, back and forth. <\/p>\n

I got up to see the hummingbird flying at the squirrel.<\/p>\n

I stood paralyzed for some moments not wanting to miss what was going on but wanting to try to take some photos.<\/p>\n

Finally I moved and got the camera…<\/p>\n

I have never been able to get a photo of a hummingbird in flight. They zip around so fast. They stop in a momentary hover and by the time I focus they have zipped away. But this bird was flying back and forth near the squirrel so I hoped that focusing on the squirrel and clicking away, I might get a shot of the hummer.<\/p>\n

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Some of these shots remind me of “Top Gun”…<\/p>\n

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Headed straight up at top speed!<\/p>\n

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Zeroing in on the squirrel…<\/p>\n

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The money shot!!<\/p>\n

No conclusion, really.<\/p>\n

The hummingbird went off – in search of food I would guess. Still, incredibly interesting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The squirrel. I wish the squirrel had stayed where he was because the light was perfect there. But he moved up the tree, so unfortunately, I was shooting into the sun. But the action was happening and I didn’t want to miss anything! If you’ve never heard a hummingbird … when they fly close, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17559"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17567,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17559\/revisions\/17567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}