{"id":15953,"date":"2026-04-11T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:58:52","slug":"backyard-critters-early-april-2026-camera-feeder-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15953","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Critters &#8211; Early April 2026 Camera Feeder Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got a new camera bird feeder and fired it up. Seems to be working great so far. The squirrels have not chewed through any wires mainly because there are no external wires to chew through.<\/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\/2s5v3Lp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55184902047_faf7e2e3d7.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Male Cardinal<\/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\/2s5Brkr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55186148643_a4c03e5747.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Female Cardinal<\/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\/2s5Brq1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55186148908_1f0582ffea.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>House finch<\/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\/2s5AEvj\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55185997836_23a6f5cdb6.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another house finch<\/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\/2s5KbfY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55187658820_a66dcb924e.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still using hot sauce laced bird food and the squirrels hate it but still they hop on just to check it out. I put a half handful of peanuts in the cup this one is checking out. The cardinals love the peanuts and the squirrels do as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/2026\/04\/saturdays-critters-643.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/viewingnaturewitheileen.blogspot.com\/2026\/04\/saturdays-critters-643.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>Saturday&#8217;s Critters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new camera bird feeder and fired it up. Seems to be working great so far. The squirrels have not chewed through any wires mainly because there are no external wires to chew through. Male Cardinal Female Cardinal House finch Another house finch I&#8217;m still using hot sauce laced bird food and the [&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":[3902,942],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturdays-critters","tag-camera-feeder","tag-saturdays-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953"}],"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=15953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15954,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions\/15954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}