{"id":15717,"date":"2025-10-11T09:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15717"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:05:42","slug":"saturdays-critters-carolina-wren-on-the-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15717","title":{"rendered":"Saturday&#8217;s Critters &#8211; Carolina Wren on the Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rymFHT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54843775481_d991fd7fa6.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC1158\" width=\"500\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was out hiking on Tulsa&#8217;s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, with my &#8220;good camera&#8221;, and I heard a bird call. The Merlin App said it was a Carolina Wren. So I just stopped and stood still and was looking around and I saw two little birds that I thought could be them. They are kind of flighty so I just waited until I had a clear shot and took several and this one was the best one of the lot. I&#8217;ve learned to use manual focus when I am shooting bird photos in trees and brush otherwise the camera will focus on miscellaneous twigs, branches and leaves. I know it is grainy, it is highly cropped. But I will take. Carolina Wrens are beautiful birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think that I am slowly getting better spotting and photographing birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/saturdays-critters-617.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/saturdays-critters-617.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Saturday&#8217;s Critters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out hiking on Tulsa&#8217;s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area, with my &#8220;good camera&#8221;, and I heard a bird call. The Merlin App said it was a Carolina Wren. So I just stopped and stood still and was looking around and I saw two little birds that I thought could be them. They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[954],"tags":[3836,942,1284,2251],"class_list":["post-15717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturdays-critters","tag-carolina-wren","tag-saturdays-critters","tag-turkey-mountain","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15718,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15717\/revisions\/15718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}