{"id":11811,"date":"2012-03-02T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T00:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=11811"},"modified":"2012-03-02T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T00:05:04","slug":"possible-return-of-an-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/02\/possible-return-of-an-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible Return Of An Old Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I noticed that a Turtle Dove was sitting in the hanging flower pot outside my bathroom window. I&#8217;d like to think that she&#8217;s either the vigilant mother who nested there last year, or possibly one of her offspring all done growed up. She didn&#8217;t fly away when I carefully got close enough to get this shot, and I take that as a good sign she&#8217;s nesting. Hopefully she&#8217;ll still be there tomorrow, and the day after.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Turtle-Dove-Nest-03-02-12-lo-res.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[11811]\"><img data-attachment-id=\"11812\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/02\/possible-return-of-an-old-friend\/turtle-dove-nest-03-02-12-lo-res\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Turtle-Dove-Nest-03-02-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1330697272&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Turtle Dove Nest 03-02-12 lo-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Turtle-Dove-Nest-03-02-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Turtle-Dove-Nest-03-02-12-lo-res.jpg?fit=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11812\" title=\"Turtle Dove Nest 03-02-12 lo-res\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Turtle-Dove-Nest-03-02-12-lo-res-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Turtle-Dove-Nest-03-02-12-lo-res.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Turtle-Dove-Nest-03-02-12-lo-res.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I noticed that a Turtle Dove was sitting in the hanging flower pot outside my bathroom window. I&#8217;d like to think that she&#8217;s either the vigilant mother who nested there last year, or possibly one of her offspring all done growed up. She didn&#8217;t fly away when I carefully got close enough to get &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/02\/possible-return-of-an-old-friend\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-34v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9821,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/11\/15\/to-the-doctor\/","url_meta":{"origin":11811,"position":0},"title":"To The Doctor!","date":"November 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Took my mom for a doctor's appointment to investigate some discomfort she's been having lately. He didn't completely rule out gas.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Mami-Doctor01-11-15-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6785,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/06\/04\/house-of-vs-day-three-laurens-watching\/","url_meta":{"origin":11811,"position":1},"title":"House Of VS Day Three: Lauren&#8217;s Watching","date":"June 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"No matter where I go, she's watching me.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Friends&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Eyes01-06-05-11-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11411,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/02\/07\/wherefore-art-thou-romero\/","url_meta":{"origin":11811,"position":2},"title":"Wherefore Art Thou, Romero?","date":"February 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Took my mom for a scheduled appointment with Dr. Romero, her primary care physician. 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We were hoping it would be today.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fauna&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6897,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2011\/06\/06\/house-of-vs-day-five-scales-fur-and-an-interloper\/","url_meta":{"origin":11811,"position":4},"title":"House Of VS Day Five: Scales, Fur And An Interloper","date":"June 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Mr. Fisher, Theo, Gordon and a welcome intruder whom I call Halle because she's brown, pretty and played Catwoman. 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Great thing about knowing your barber so well is that you can spend the entire\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11814,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions\/11814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}