{"id":79,"date":"2015-02-27T00:18:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T00:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-02-27T02:49:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T02:49:46","slug":"another-baby-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/2015\/02\/another-baby-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Another baby bird…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few weeks I have noticed the Superb Fairy-Wrens<\/a> being very active and noisy around the yard. They are beautiful, dainty little birds that are a pleasure to have around. They are quite the acrobat too, I’ve seen them snatch insects mid-air as they dart here and there.<\/p>

I kept thinking I should look around the place a bit closer as I thought they must be nesting somewhere but never got around to it. I have heaps of shrubs that make good hiding places and a nest could be anywhere.<\/p>

Today I wandered around the corner of the house to find a pair of fairy-wrens darting all over the place and appearing quite agitated at my presence. Looking closer I saw a little one in the garden fluttering around.<\/p>

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The baby Superb Fairy-Wren (it was hard to focus on him as he kept moving in amongst the bush)<\/p>\n<\/div>

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This guy must have just left the nest because as I watched, he got himself coordinated and managed to fly a short distance. By the time I got my camera, he was up in a tree.<\/p>

I found the nest in a nearby azalea. It was a fully enclosed and deep nest for such little birds. I couldn’t see any evidence of other young ones so maybe this one is an only child.<\/p>

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The nest in an azalea<\/p>\n<\/div>

Dad is a pretty bird with his bright blue colouring. They never stay still so it was hard getting a photo of him.<\/p>

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Dad<\/p>\n<\/div>

\ufeffAlthough Mum has plain brown colouring (with red colouring around her eye), they are such petite birds that I find are just as attractive as the males. I couldn’t get a good photo of her as she was even more active than Dad.<\/p>

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Mum (not the best angle and out of focus)<\/p>\n<\/div>

\ufeff\ufeffI will have to keep my eyes open as I’m sure there must be other nesting pairs in the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last few weeks I have noticed the Superb Fairy-Wrens being very active and noisy around the yard. They are beautiful, dainty little birds that are a pleasure to have around. They are quite the acrobat too, I’ve seen them snatch insects mid-air as they dart here and there.I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/02\/IMG_0133.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5uC1S-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevoz.com\/homeandgarden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}