{"id":1800,"date":"2011-05-13T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2011-05-08T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T01:05:55","slug":"mourning-doves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/mourning-doves\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning Doves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While these little beauties were eating me out of house and home, I have found a bird seed that they don&#8217;t seem to like, Safflower seed.  So at least for now they are hanging around hoping I go back to the old seed!  No chance of that as the Crows and squirrels don&#8217;t like Safflower seed either.  Talking about killing 2 birds with one stone, bad pun I know.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1803\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/mourning-doves\/bpmd_00018-as-smart-object-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1803\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00018-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BPMD_00018 as Smart Object copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00018-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00018-as-Smart-Object-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning Dove on the Grass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mourning Doves are usually ground feeders.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1802\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/mourning-doves\/bpmd_00014-as-smart-object-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1802\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00014-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BPMD_00014 as Smart Object copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00014-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00014-as-Smart-Object-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning Dove on Perch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1801\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/mourning-doves\/bpmd_00008-as-smart-object-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1801\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00008-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BPMD_00008 as Smart Object copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00008-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/BPMD_00008-as-Smart-Object-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning Dove Looking Over its Shoulder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This one however, had other ideas!<\/p>\n<p>Images made with Nikon D3x, 600 f\/4 VR-II w\/TCe 1.4 II on Lexar digital film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While these little beauties were eating me out of house and home, I have found a bird seed that they don&#8217;t seem to like, Safflower seed. So at least for now they are hanging around hoping I go back to the old seed! No chance of that as the Crows and squirrels don&#8217;t like Safflower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyuQ8-t2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}