{"id":367,"date":"2008-05-14T19:03:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/05\/bluejay_babies\/"},"modified":"2012-01-04T19:44:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T00:44:36","slug":"bluejay_babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/05\/bluejay_babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluejay Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks, any time I would let the dogs out in the backyard, a robin would start yelling at me. Also I saw a broken eggshell where a baby robin had hatched. So I was on the lookout for a nest. This morning I found one in the branches of my maple tree in the back. But the bird sitting on the nest was gray, not a robin. This afternoon I noticed the mother bird was gone so I got the camera and ladder and went up to check out what was there. The babies (3 or 4) opened their mouths when I came up. But before I could snap their pictures, their parents came around yelling at me. Bluejays! The father actually smacked into my head a couple of times. With them yelling the babies crouched down in the nest. I still got a picture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2008\/bluejaybaby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bluejaybaby.jpg\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2008\/bluejaybaby-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one taken May 23, getting feathers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2008\/bluejay2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bluejay2.jpg\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2008\/bluejay2-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By May 29, the nest was empty but the parents were still hanging around and protective. I found a fledgling under the tree hidden in the ivy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2008\/fledge.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ted\/files\/mt\/archive\/2008\/fledge-thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks, any time I would let the dogs out in the backyard, a robin would start yelling at me. Also I saw a broken eggshell where a baby robin had hatched. So I was on the lookout for a nest. This morning I found one in the branches of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2008\/05\/bluejay_babies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluejay Babies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}