{"id":15871,"date":"2026-02-07T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15871"},"modified":"2026-02-07T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T14:56:57","slug":"something-to-crow-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15871","title":{"rendered":"Something to Crow About"},"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\/2rUMCir\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55074971691_dabe9914e0.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3871\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day I was outside with the dogs and I noticed this squirrel frozen in place on a branch. <\/p>\n\n\n\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\/2rUPtaS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55075331200_0f49edec8f.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3869\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it was worried about these crows who were on a wire in the green space behind our backyard. I had never thought of crows being a threat to squirrels, but what I read on the interwebs is that they sometimes will attack young squirrels but are hesitant about taking on grown squirrels because apparently grown squirrels will fight back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/2026\/02\/saturdays-critters-634.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/2026\/02\/saturdays-critters-634.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Saturday&#8217;s Critters<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I was outside with the dogs and I noticed this squirrel frozen in place on a branch. I think it was worried about these crows who were on a wire in the green space behind our backyard. I had never thought of crows being a threat to squirrels, but what I read [&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":[2888,942,1314],"class_list":["post-15871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturdays-critters","tag-backyard","tag-saturdays-critters","tag-squirrels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15871"}],"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=15871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15872,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15871\/revisions\/15872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}