{"id":34,"date":"2007-09-23T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-09-23T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T23:38:00","slug":"running-rooster-and-roadrunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/running-rooster-and-roadrunner\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Rooster and Roadrunner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t take my photo!&#8221;, he crows as he runs for cover.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/Rvb6nVDHN1I\/AAAAAAAAAKs\/SxJz8Sh6chg\/s400\/09_09_rooster.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> I have been away from consworld, photographing life in and around Castroville, Texas. It was hot, hot, hot and I am happy to be back home. The running rooster was one of the first images I made on the trip, but the rooster wasn&#8217;t the only bird running around on the farm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/Rvb9PlDHN2I\/AAAAAAAAAK0\/t1sirTAAkyI\/s400\/_MG_5552_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/Rvb9uFDHN3I\/AAAAAAAAAK8\/Ma2TkisBp3c\/s400\/_MG_5556_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> This chaparral bird, or roadrunner, was roaming about gathering plant material. I&#8217;ve read the nest is made of sticks, but this bird was gathering softer green plants, perhaps to line a nest(?). <\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/RvcEcFDHN6I\/AAAAAAAAALU\/wqG4nNvEGl0\/s400\/_MG_5586.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/Rvb95VDHN4I\/AAAAAAAAALE\/RXKHnhlGOkg\/s400\/_MG_5547_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> She (or he?) seemed friendly as long as I was still. Once, she ran toward me only turning away at about 10 feet. She took a dust bath within 30 feet of me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_Fww7ts0xPNk\/RvcEFFDHN5I\/AAAAAAAAALM\/xoOl54CuyRk\/s400\/_MG_5581.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More to come. I took several hundred photos while away and have been happily shooting sunsets and sunsrises here in Colorado since I&#8217;ve returned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t take my photo!&#8221;, he crows as he runs for cover. I have been away from consworld, photographing life in and around Castroville, Texas. It was hot, hot, hot and I am happy to be back home. The running rooster was one of the first images I made on the trip, but the rooster wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castroville","category-roadrunner","category-rooster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}