{"id":27459,"date":"2021-02-16T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T13:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=27459"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T13:47:07","slug":"redpolls-on-nettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=27459","title":{"rendered":"Redpolls on nettle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I&#8217;ve written before on this blog, nettles (<em>Urtica<\/em> spp.) are important food plants for birds, both due to insects and their larvae feeding on them in summer and the nutrient rich seed in winter. Today there was a small flock of redpolls (gr\u00e5sisik) feeding on the seed on a small patch of stinging nettle (<em>Urtica dioica<\/em>) that I&#8217;ve been encouraging just below the house and in good view of the living room.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/P2020299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/P2020299.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/P2020299-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/P2020299-768x685.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/P2020299-640x571.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 790px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-27459-1\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Redpoll_on_nettle.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Redpoll_on_nettle.mp4\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Redpoll_on_nettle.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve written before on this blog, nettles (Urtica spp.) are important food plants for birds, both due to insects and their larvae feeding on them in summer [&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":[1158,855,854,1157,1131],"class_list":["post-27459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","tag-brennesle","tag-grasisik","tag-redpoll","tag-stinging-nettle","tag-urtica-dioica"],"views":2534,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27464,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459\/revisions\/27464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}