{"id":996,"date":"2026-04-05T23:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2026-04-05T23:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:01:59","slug":"714-birdwatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/714-birdwatching\/","title":{"rendered":"[#714] Birdwatching!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I apparently already botched my plan to update this space at least once a month, oops.<\/p>\n<p>March seemed to just zoom past me, in my defense&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I recently got my Mother Dearest a bird feeder with a camera on it that uses a detection service to tell you what kind of bird is currently grabbing some dinner. Pretty neat, right?<\/p>\n<p>In true autistic catgirl behavior, I&#8217;m probably using it more than she does and birdwatching is quickly approaching Special Interest territory.<\/p>\n<p>Some of our coolest visitors so far have been a crow (they looked like they were HELLA judging our choice of feed) and one of my all time favorite birds, a Mourning Dove. The doves usually just ate what was knocked on the ground by all the other birds so it was so cool to see one on the feeder.<\/p>\n<p>cooo! cooo! cooo!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-997\" src=\"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3438-1024x695.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3438-1024x695.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3438-300x204.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3438-768x522.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3438-982x667.jpeg 982w, https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3438.jpeg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-998\" src=\"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3446-1024x562.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3446-1024x562.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3446-300x165.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3446-768x422.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3446-982x539.jpeg 982w, https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3446.jpeg 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I apparently already botched my plan to update this space at least once a month, oops. March seemed to just zoom past me, in my defense&#8230;. Anyway, I recently got my Mother Dearest a bird feeder with a camera on it that uses a detection service to tell you what kind of bird is&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/05\/714-birdwatching\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[#714] Birdwatching!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[364,365],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-birds","tag-birdwatching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astral-stasis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}