{"id":54567,"date":"2016-12-14T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=54567"},"modified":"2016-12-14T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:49:27","slug":"weekly-wildlife-in-the-garden-late-for-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/12\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-in-the-garden-late-for-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wildlife in the Garden: Late for Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller; color: #808080;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/tag\/patricia-gonzalez\">Patricia Gonzalez<\/a> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> Visitor Services Attendant and avid wildlife photographer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\" \/>\n<p>Some of my best wildlife sightings at the Garden this year have been right before I check in for work. Earlier this week, I saw a wild turkey just outside our offices at the Visitor Center. She was standing on one of the planters, looking right at me!<\/p>\n<p>Wild turkeys are a common sight at the Garden and other green spots during the winter. The framing could not have been better! She soon jumped down and walked on the lawn\u2014one more for the books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/12\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-in-the-garden-late-for-thanksgiving\/attachment\/img_6214c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54569\"><img data-attachment-id=\"54569\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/12\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-in-the-garden-late-for-thanksgiving\/attachment\/img_6214c\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c.png\" data-orig-size=\"1200,742\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wild turkey\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c-300x186.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c-1024x633.png\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-54569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c-1024x633.png\" alt=\"Wild turkey\" width=\"570\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A wild turkey at the Visitor Center \u2013 Photo by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild turkeys are a common sight at the Garden and other green spots during the winter, and the framing on this one could not have been better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":54569,"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":[34],"tags":[1556,449,1360,2890,4542],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_6214c.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-ec7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54567"}],"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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54571,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54567\/revisions\/54571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}