{"id":227,"date":"2010-08-22T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T19:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-07-23T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T14:35:31","slug":"backyard-nature-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Nature Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Pea-Hen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230\" title=\"Pea Hen\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Pea-Hen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Pea-Hen.jpg 432w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Pea-Hen-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pea Hen, Backyard, Northern Virginia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is something we don&#8217;t see very often in this area. \u00a0A pair of these <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peafowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pea hens<\/a> started visiting us last weekend. \u00a0We don&#8217;t know where they came from, but suspect that they might have been someone&#8217;s pet. \u00a0We think they were either left behind by someone who moved and were tired of them, or maybe they escaped from their pen. \u00a0We&#8217;ll keep an eye out for missing posters.<\/p>\n<p>One day they woke us up around 5:45AM with their squawking. \u00a0We went outside and saw them silhouetted on our rooftop.<\/p>\n<p>After two days we bought some crushed corn from a pet store. \u00a0The sales clerk expressed doubts that we really had pea hens in the back yard. \u00a0We printed out pictures for our next trip for more crushed corn.<\/p>\n<p>They now show up for breakfast and dinner. \u00a0I think they have us trained, they have gotten to the point where they will peck on our sliding glass door if we do not have their meals ready. \u00a0Once we open the door they move away until we put out the bowl. \u00a0I am able to leave the sliding door open about six inches and stick out my lens to take all the pictures I want. \u00a0Talk about a convenient blind for nature photography!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something we don&#8217;t see very often in this area. \u00a0A pair of these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-photography","tag-pea-hen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}