{"id":4,"date":"2008-02-15T06:53:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-02-16T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T14:01:46","slug":"young-boy-with-chickadee-in-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/young-boy-with-chickadee-in-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Boy with Chickadee in Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"5\" color=\"#800000\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\">\u00a0<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><font size=\"5\" color=\"#800000\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"198\" src=\"http:\/\/greatriver.com\/_borders\/bottom1.jpg\" hspace=\"7\" alt=\"Photo by Rich Middleton, boy with Bird, Goose Island near La Crosse, WI\" height=\"329\" \/><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/>\nThis\u00a0 photo is a favorite of mine. We were cruising through Goose Island County Park when we stopped at a feeder to capture photos of birds and deer feeding on corn and bird seed left by Sunday sightseers. We watched with interest as a Grandpa began to encourage his two grandsons to feed the wild chickadees from seeds in their hand.<\/p>\n<p>In 30 years of birding, it had never occured to me to try that!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could I try that, too?&#8221; I asked him? So he gave me some seeds and I watched as the chickadees and nuthatches hesitantly and delicately landed on my fingers to eat the seeds! What a wonderful sensation to feel those feather light little feet on my fingers!!<\/p>\n<p>Then another car stopped and five kids jumped out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could we feed the birds, too?&#8221; And they, too, lined up along the road, arms outstretched. The nuthatches and chickadees ate from their hands also!<\/p>\n<p>What a wonderful, unexpected, experience that generous man provided to all nine of us passers-by! It&#8217;s something I hope to experience with my grand-kids as well.<\/p>\n<p>As you check visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/\">www.greatriver.com<\/a>, please do use our search engines to search the Internet. Each of your searches helps keep www.greatriver.com &#8220;reader supported.&#8221; Thank you!<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">          <!--  google_ad_client = \"pub-2632865458600424\";  \/* 728x15, created 2\/16\/08 *\/  google_ad_slot = \"4146476501\";  google_ad_width = 628;  google_ad_height = 15;  \/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">            src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" mce_src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 This\u00a0 photo is a favorite of mine. We were cruising through Goose Island County Park when we stopped at a feeder to capture photos of birds and deer feeding on corn and bird seed left by Sunday sightseers. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/young-boy-with-chickadee-in-hand\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139,11,9,10],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-birding","tag-goose-island","tag-teaching","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}