{"id":8810,"date":"2016-12-03T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T10:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8810"},"modified":"2016-12-03T19:44:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T18:44:03","slug":"the-goldies-are-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=8810","title":{"rendered":"The Goldies are back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Goldfinches (stillits) are back. They are winter visitors here and, as far as I know, it isn&#8217;t known where these birds breed, perhaps in the Baltic states \/Finland, moving westwards to overwinter in our warmer weather!<br \/>\nThese beautiful birds started appearing in my garden some 15 years ago as I grew and saved seed of vegetable burdock (borre) or <em>Arctium lappa<\/em>, their main food here in winter. At that time my garden was the best place to see them and I had several visits from bird photographers and birdwatchers to see them. It must be a bad year for burdock (there&#8217;s not much in my garden) as they&#8217;ve gone straight for the bird feeder, something that doesn&#8217;t usually happen until later in the winter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8811\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8811\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1680737.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8811 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1680737-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"P1680737\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1680737-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1680737.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of a flock of 29 goldfinches in the garden today!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1680725.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1680725-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"P1680725\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8810-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Goldiess.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Goldiess.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Goldiess.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Goldfinches (stillits) are back. They are winter visitors here and, as far as I know, it isn&#8217;t known where these birds breed, perhaps in the Baltic states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1930,796,404,591,460],"class_list":["post-8810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-arctium-lappa","tag-borre","tag-burdock","tag-european-goldfinch","tag-stillits"],"views":3036,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8817,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions\/8817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}