{"id":2385,"date":"2007-08-20T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T13:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2007-08-20T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T13:10:12","slug":"ruby-throated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/08\/20\/ruby-throated\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby-throated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning, on our return to Adam&#8217;s after gathering exotic wood from the Agassiz Theater in Harvard Square,  and then breakfast at La Pro with Dan and Mark, we spied a skittish hummingbird dipping into the new feeder outside his  back window.  I ran to my truck to retrieve my camera, and then back to the room with the view, but the bird spotted my movements and flitted away.  He&#8217;d come back, but disappear as soon as I raised my lens.<\/p>\n<p>The fruits of my labor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/reflections.jpg\" title=\"reflections.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/reflections.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"reflections.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adam said, &#8220;You need a blind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, not today, I don&#8217;t.  I gathered my last cup of decaf and headed\u00c2\u00a0 home. The very next day I opened an email from Adam and lookee here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/the_blind.jpg\" title=\"the_blind.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/the_blind.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"the_blind.jpg\" \/>  <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/the_bird_sees.jpg\" title=\"the_bird_sees.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/the_bird_sees.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"the_bird_sees.jpg\" \/>   <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/caught_on_camera.jpg\" title=\"caught_on_camera.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/caught_on_camera.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"caught_on_camera.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday morning, on our return to Adam&#8217;s after gathering exotic wood from the Agassiz Theater in Harvard Square, and then breakfast at La Pro with Dan and Mark, we spied a skittish hummingbird dipping into the new feeder outside his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2007\/08\/20\/ruby-throated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}