{"id":2417,"date":"2011-11-16T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2011-11-13T10:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T15:09:38","slug":"house-finches-on-the-lookout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/house-finches-on-the-lookout\/","title":{"rendered":"House Finches on the Lookout"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am not a fan of having bird feeders in my images. But I made an exception here because of the gesture shown by this pair of House Finches.<\/p>\n

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House Finches at Feeder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The behavior of the birds was interesting. What you can’t see from these images, but I hope you can surmise, is that a Red Tailed Hawk is flying above. After every seed these two pulled out of the feeder, they would eat that seed while keeping a close eye on the Hawk high above.<\/p>\n

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House Finches Eyeing Red Tailed Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Images Captured with Nikon D700, 600mm f\/4 and TCe-1.4 II on Lexar Digital Film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not a fan of having bird feeders in my images. But I made an exception here because of the gesture shown by this pair of House Finches. The behavior of the birds was interesting. What you can’t see from these images, but I hope you can surmise, is that a Red Tailed Hawk […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t