{"id":4615,"date":"2021-09-24T15:42:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2021-10-12T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T19:03:09","slug":"not-our-cat-and-other-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/not-our-cat-and-other-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Our Cat (and other wildlife)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We looked out the window one day to see the neighborhood cat sleeping on the bench in our backyard.\u00a0 The cat is a bit jumpy, and won&#8217;t let me get anywhere close, so I can&#8217;t read the tag to get its name.\u00a0 Our yard is completely fenced, so this is a nice quiet, safe space to sleep if you&#8217;re a cat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/not-our-cat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4617\" src=\"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/not-our-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/not-our-cat.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/not-our-cat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/not-our-cat-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a> Unless these guys show up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backyard-deer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4619\" src=\"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backyard-deer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backyard-deer.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backyard-deer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/backyard-deer-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve seen deer on the cemetery side of the fence before, but this was the first time we&#8217;ve seen some in our yard.\u00a0 The chain-link fence you see was put up by the cemetery (as far as we know).\u00a0 Our fence (to the left and right) is wood (as seen in the cat photo above).\u00a0 Either way, the fence is 5-6 feet high, and it&#8217;s not like these two crawled underneath somehow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hummingbird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4616\" src=\"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hummingbird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hummingbird.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hummingbird-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/hummingbird-768x533.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>We had one hummingbird feeder outside the kitchen window, and it gained so much traffic that Denise added a second one a little farther away.\u00a0 These hummingbirds are very entertaining to watch.\u00a0 They will chase each other around and chirp at each other loudly (surprisingly loud for such tiny birds).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Owl-MintoBrown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4618\" src=\"http:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Owl-MintoBrown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Owl-MintoBrown.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hovorka.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Owl-MintoBrown-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>This was taken at Minto-Brown Island Park, where we walk all the time.\u00a0 We think we&#8217;ve heard an owl near the house, but haven&#8217;t seen one there yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We looked out the window one day to see the neighborhood cat sleeping on the bench in our backyard.\u00a0 The cat is a bit jumpy, and won&#8217;t let me get anywhere close, so I can&#8217;t read the tag to get its name.\u00a0 Our yard is completely fenced, so this is a nice quiet, safe space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/not-our-cat-and-other-wildlife\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not Our Cat (and other wildlife)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hovorka.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}