{"id":191,"date":"2015-10-10T19:34:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2016-02-20T18:02:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T18:02:38","slug":"tutis-blog-25-wildlife-soap-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/tutis-blog-25-wildlife-soap-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuti\u2019s Blog #25 – Wildlife Soap Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"

The old Carer had to go spend some time at her brother\u2019s place and she was recounting the wildlife soap opera in the park outside his apartment window. A bunch of flashy green parakeets \u2013 apparently now \u2018naturalised\u2019 immigrants from the Himalayan foothills, which must offend the anti-immigration lobby \u2013 has taken up residence, but they just zoom around the trees chattering or squawking at each other. A family of foxes, forever scratching at their fleas, was being hassled by a \u2018mob\u2019 of magpies, which seemed to find pleasure in nipping the foxes\u2019 tails; meanwhile the squirrels and regular pigeons were fighting over scraps of food \u2013 mostly bread \u2013 tossed out of the windows by the local Human residents, whilst the local cat persons spent their time either ineffectively stalking the magpies or just flopping out on the grass. Nothing quite so dramatic happens here. The old Carer puts out fat balls for the tiny birds and wild birdseed for the wood pigeons, but the squirrels seem to be the primary beneficiaries of this largesse. Alas, one wood pigeon got too bold and hung around, but the old Carer found it half-eaten at the bottom of the garden. I assure you, it was not ME!! When the other half disappeared the following day she surmised that the local fox person must have been the culprit. The other wood pigeons knew what had happened and stayed away for several days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The old Carer had to go spend some time at her brother\u2019s place and she was recounting the wildlife soap opera in the park outside his apartment window. A bunch of flashy green parakeets \u2013 apparently now \u2018naturalised\u2019 immigrants from the Himalayan foothills, which must offend the anti-immigration lobby \u2013 has taken up residence, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeanfisher.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}