{"id":1634,"date":"2011-04-27T21:19:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2011-04-27T21:19:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:19:25","slug":"getting-to-know-the-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know the locals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will no doubt recall the earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=857\">forays into bird watching<\/a> at Mum&#8217;s place. Since we&#8217;ve been out here all day for a few days I&#8217;ve really noticed the different bird life we have around here on the plains. Magpies, hawks, sky-larks etc all pop around for a visit during the day, and as we&#8217;ve spent more and more time out working around the house they seem to get more and more used to us and come a bit closer now and then. <\/p>\n<p>If I could only workout how to take a photo while I&#8217;ve also got my hands full of rake or spade I&#8217;d have some great photos! But the best I&#8217;ve got so far is of this little cheeky chap who was standing on the flowers having a bit of a peck around.<\/p>\n<p align=center><a href=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/randombird.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/randombird.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"random bird\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just have to work out what it is! I suspect a Birds of New Zealand book for the library is probably well overdue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will no doubt recall the earlier forays into bird watching at Mum&#8217;s place. Since we&#8217;ve been out here all day for a few days I&#8217;ve really noticed the different bird life we have around here on the plains. Magpies, hawks, sky-larks etc all pop around for a visit during the day, and as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}