{"id":2318,"date":"2011-10-12T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2011-10-11T19:23:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T23:23:53","slug":"mourning-dove-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/mourning-dove-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning Dove Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2319\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/mourning-dove-profile\/bpmd_00018-as-smart-object-copy-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BPMD_00018-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BPMD_00018 as Smart Object copy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BPMD_00018-as-Smart-Object-copy.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/BPMD_00018-as-Smart-Object-copy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourning Dove Profile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our yard was over-run with Mourning Doves this year.  I was told by a bird expert that if I wanted to reduce the number of Doves in the yard that I should try putting Safflower seed in all the feeders.  Guess what?  My Doves love Safflower seed, go figure.<\/p>\n<p>To make this image I needed to get down low and wait for one of the birds to drop off the feeder onto the grass which they do on a regular basis.  Thats what happens when you do the work and learn their behaviors and biology.<\/p>\n<p>Images captured with Nikon D700, 600mm f\/4 on Lexar Digital Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our yard was over-run with Mourning Doves this year. I was told by a bird expert that if I wanted to reduce the number of Doves in the yard that I should try putting Safflower seed in all the feeders. Guess what? My Doves love Safflower seed, go figure. To make this image I needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-2318","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-Bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","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=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}