{"id":1321,"date":"2015-03-21T22:47:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T02:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2015-03-22T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T13:56:09","slug":"springtime-and-squirrel-nests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Springtime and Squirrels Nests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January, I blogged in \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/?p=1135\"><em>Snowstorms and Squirrels Nests<\/em><\/a>\u00a0about a remarkable squirrels nest that was in a\u00a0tree in the back-yard.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I have to report that the squirrels nest did not make it through the winter.\u00a0\u00a0Two weeks ago\u00a0it had a hole right through the middle. I would have taken a picture but the snow was too deep to wade out into the yard. Two days ago I went out and took a picture of the tatters that are left. Here are before and\u00a0after shots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150124_112426.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1138\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150124_112426-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20150124_112426\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150124_112426-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/20150124_112426-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150318_102141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1325\" src=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150318_102141-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"20150318_102141\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150318_102141-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150318_102141-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nest made it most of the way\u00a0through this epic winter which is pretty amazing. It certainly made it through the two worst storms. Even more amazing is how many squirrels nests in the area did make it.<\/p>\n<p>On a happy note, there seems to be no shortage of squirrels in the back yard eating birdseed so I&#8217;m confidant they survived the break-up of their nest!<\/p>\n<p>As I suspected back in January, they were nuts to go out\u00a0 on a limb like that!<\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2015 Magnus Incognito<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January, I blogged in \u00a0Snowstorms and Squirrels Nests\u00a0about a remarkable squirrels nest that was in a\u00a0tree in the back-yard. Unfortunately, I have to report that the squirrels nest did not make it through the winter.\u00a0\u00a0Two weeks ago\u00a0it had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=1321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}