{"id":11343,"date":"2012-03-27T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11343"},"modified":"2012-03-27T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T08:00:59","slug":"check-out-that-pecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11343","title":{"rendered":"Check Out That Pecker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mafiuNVIqM0?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mafiuNVIqM0?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had trouble getting decent shots of woodpeckers before \u2014\u00a0they&#8217;ve had a tendency to move around to the other side of the tree or move along if I got close.  This time I maxed out the optical zoom on my camera (advertised as 20X) and used the &#8220;digital zoom&#8221; (trading resolution for additional closeup) for about an extra factor of two and steadied myself against a tree.  The bird wasn&#8217;t always in the frame for the whole shot as a result, but there&#8217;s a bit of footage from which to choose; at 210 fps, this clip represents only about 4 seconds of elapsed time.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video I&#8217;ve had trouble getting decent shots of woodpeckers before \u2014\u00a0they&#8217;ve had a tendency to move around to the other side of the tree or move along if I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,37,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-photography","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}