{"id":33474,"date":"2013-02-18T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=33474"},"modified":"2013-02-15T11:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:34:20","slug":"morning-eye-candy-pre-flight-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/02\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-pre-flight-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Pre-Flight Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nope, they won&#8217;t all be this easy to spot. But seeing as this is the <em>last day<\/em> of this year&#8217;s <a title=\"Birdsource.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsource.org\/gbbc\" target=\"_blank\">Great Backyard Bird Count<\/a>, take what you can get! Seeing as we&#8217;re open on this particular President&#8217;s Day, we&#8217;ll be tallying up our feathered friends all afternoon. You&#8217;ll find &#8220;birder headquarters&#8221; in the <a title=\"Everett Children's Adventure Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/adventure-garden\/\">Everett Children&#8217;s Adventure Garden<\/a>. And even if you don&#8217;t have binoculars, that&#8217;s no excuse to sit this one out&#8211;we&#8217;ve got a handful of loaner pairs available from the Visitor&#8217;s Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"33475\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/02\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-pre-flight-checks\/attachment\/mec-birdie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1623\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1358250452&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Say hi to birdie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie-300x194.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie-1024x664.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-33475\" alt=\"Say hi to birdie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie-1024x664.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy President&#8217;s Day! We&#8217;re open, and it&#8217;s the last day of the Great Backyard Bird Count, so why not give us a hand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":33475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[1556,3029,1512,4619,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/MEC-Birdie.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-8HU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33477,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33474\/revisions\/33477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}