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A few weeks ago, I wrote that we had American robins nesting in our yard, and that I\u2019d pointed a video camera at them. So far, political correctness hasn\u2019t reached the level of insanity where shooting video of birds without their permission gets me arrested for voyeurism or sued for taking unauthorized images of minors.<\/p>\n
I finally got around to editing \u201cthe interesting bits\u201d together, adding a few KDH-style captions, and posting the results to YouTube.<\/p>\n
There are two videos, shot three days apart. The amount that the babies grew in that time surprised me. (I was going to use the word \u201castonished\u201d but who uses that word these days except for effect?)<\/p>\n
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The babies have long-since flown the nest, (much like our own babies), and now some house wrens seem to be checking it out. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re considering moving in\u2014apparently house wrens build their own from scratch. (Well, actually, they build them from sticks, feather, hair, wool, moss and suchlike, but you know what I mean.)<\/p>\n
The Latin name for the House Wren is troglodytes aedon<\/em>. Hmmm\u2026 I\u2019ll think on that one. Meanwhile\u2026<\/p>\n Watch the July 6 video here<\/a>.\u00a0 (5 mins 20 secs)<\/p>\n Watch the July 9 video here<\/a>.\u00a0 (7 mins 4 secs)<\/p>\n These were my first attempts at creating a \u201cnature\u201d video. They aren\u2019t bad, but the darned birds had to choose a spot with an impeded line of sight! I\u2019m going to look for more opportunities to capture wildlife, to see if I can improve though.<\/p>\n Perhaps we\u2019ll have a bear den in our yard this winter\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks ago, I wrote that we had American robins nesting in our yard, and that I\u2019d pointed a video camera at them. So far, political correctness hasn\u2019t reached the level of insanity where shooting video of birds without their permission gets me arrested for voyeurism or sued for taking unauthorized images of minors. I finally got around to… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[488,489],"tags":[409,410,387,411],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbs","category-scat","tag-american-robin","tag-nest","tag-nestlings","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Many who know my natural habitat (nestled in my tiny office in the basement) refer to me as a troglodyte, or \u201ccave dweller\u201d\u2014a badge I wear with pride. And according to Google Translate (not the most reliable source, I admit), \u201caedon\u201d means \u201cbore\u201d. I\u2019ve been accused of being a bore, so perhaps I should use a house wren as my profile picture.<\/p>\n