{"id":2683,"date":"2014-05-23T13:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2014-05-23T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:45:31","slug":"blue-grey-gnatcatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/blue-grey-gnatcatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s Friend: Blue Grey Gnatcatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s at least one pair of Blue Grey Gnatcatcher&#8217;s nesting in the park near me. I&#8217;m sure because I&#8217;ve watched them brooding eggs or chicks in their tuna-can-like nest at the end of a long sturdy branch in the forest.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of one of the proud parents:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlueGreyGnatcatcher2014OnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2684\" alt=\"Photo of Blue Grey Gnatcatcher 2014 On NaturalCrooksDotCom\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlueGreyGnatcatcher2014OnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\" width=\"850\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlueGreyGnatcatcher2014OnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg 850w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlueGreyGnatcatcher2014OnNaturalCrooksDotCom-200x129.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlueGreyGnatcatcher2014OnNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x259.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BlueGreyGnatcatcher2014OnNaturalCrooksDotCom-461x300.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope they have more luck this year than last. At least this year the nest is in a location more protected from predators. I have seen the parents, though, driving away a Cowbird already, so threats come in various guises.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Out on a Limb: Look Who\u2019s Nesting in Lakeside Park, Mississauga\" href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/out-limb-who-nests-lakeside-park-mississauga\/\"> <strong>Blue Grey Gnatcatchers Out on a Limb<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Blue-Gray Gnatcatchers in Thorny Situation in South Mississauga, Ontario\" href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/blue-gray-gnatcatchers-mississauga-toronto-ontario\/\"><strong>Blue Grey Gnatcatchers in a Thorny Situation<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Join In<\/strong><br \/>\nAre any of these recent arrivals to southern Ontario been nesting near you? Please share your experiences with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday&#8217;s closeup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25,150],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-birds","tag-blue-grey-gnatcatchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}