{"id":774,"date":"2012-04-09T05:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T10:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2012\/04\/09\/120409-birdnest\/"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T21:28:41","slug":"120409-birdnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/04\/09\/120409-birdnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Eggs-it Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Bill Engvall says, you might be a redneck if you have Christmas lights up on your porch year-around. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 1em 0 1em 24px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/wreath.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the wreath on our front door\">That&#8217;s an unfair characterization. A lot of people like the looks of little twinkly lights, and I&#8217;m of the opinion that you fit the redneck stereotype only if those year-around lights are strung over a Christmas tree made of Bud Light empties tied together with baling wire. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you still have a Christmas wreath on your front door in April? What does that make you? Well, we&#8217;re probably still rednecks, but not for that reason. Take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"align=\" center\"=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/39980831?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Debbie discovered the nest and the eggs only after taking the wreath off the front door in preparation for putting it atop the credenza in our bedroom. I&#8217;m glad she did, as it would have made for an unpleasant surprise around June or so.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, she quickly rehung the wreath on the front door and the mother bird promptly returned to attend to the eggs. I have no idea if they&#8217;ll hatch, as the bird flies off every time we walk by, and the eggs may not be getting their minimum daily requirement of feathered butt. I&#8217;ll report on whether we eventually have a brood on our front door, or if we can finally switch over to a more appropriate seasonal entryway decoration.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re wondering, <i>what kind of bird is it?<\/i>&nbsp;It&#8217;s a little gray one. Who do I look like, John Q. Autobahn?<\/p>\n<p><i>Technical note: I filmed this using my little <a href=\"http:\/\/gopro.com\/cameras\/hd-helmet-hero-camera\/\">GoPro HD camera<\/a>. It&#8217;s perfect for maneuvering into tight spots you can&#8217;t reach with a standard-size camera, video or otherwise, and it&#8217;s auto-focus, good low light performance, and fisheye lens makes it a good choice for no-look close-ups. (In other words, I couldn&#8217;t see what I was filming.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Bill Engvall says, you might be a redneck if you have Christmas lights up on your porch year-around. That&#8217;s an unfair characterization. A lot of people like the looks of little twinkly lights, and I&#8217;m of the opinion that you fit the redneck stereotype only if those year-around lights are strung over a Christmas&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2012\/04\/09\/120409-birdnest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eggs-it Here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9650,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}