{"id":3018,"date":"2011-03-07T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:24:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T16:24:41","slug":"sounds-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/sounds-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounds of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Cactus_Wren\/id\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Cactus wren chicks\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/20110307-188x136.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a>Cactus Wrens<\/a><\/strong> and other birds have been nest building for the last few weeks and I&#8217;ve been hearing lots of peeps\/chirps recently. It reminded me of a photo I took last year up in the North Access area of the Preserve. I set my compact camera to shoot an exposure bracket sequence of three shots; turned off my flash (didn&#8217;t want to freak the babies out!) and positioned the camera slightly inside the nest opening. I then used Photomatix to blend the exposures. Not perfect or in sharp focus but very cool! (By the way&#8230;..I had second thoughts afterward about disturbing them so I haven&#8217;t done it again).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cactus Wrens and other birds have been nest building for the last few weeks and I&#8217;ve been hearing lots of peeps\/chirps recently. It reminded me of a photo I took last year up in the North Access area of the Preserve. I set my compact camera to shoot an exposure bracket sequence of three shots; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,64,65,28,7,58,57],"tags":[569,570,988,536,503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5894,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/5894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}