{"id":4260,"date":"2010-11-09T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2010-11-09T22:48:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T04:48:53","slug":"i-hear-you-knocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=4260","title":{"rendered":"I hear you knocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This fellow regularly visits the side of my cedar sided home \u2014 just below my second floor office window. He taps rhythmically and I get up and put a long lens (in this case the 350 Telyt) on the R8\/DMR and tip toe out to catch him. No matter how I stalk him; wait for him; hide; what ever; he always disappears into the trees. This has gone on for about 3 years now. Never got a clean shot of him. Today I got one shot off before he evaded me again. Returned to the office and haven&#8217;t heard him tap since. Somehow I know he&#8217;ll be back to play again. Thanks to Doug Herr, at <a href=\"http:\/\/wildlightphoto.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlightphoto.com<\/a> , one of the finest wildlife photographers working today,\u00a0for identifying him as a male \u00a0Downy Woodpecker.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L11102281.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4287\" title=\"L1110228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L11102281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L11102281.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L11102281-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L11102281-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/L11102281-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view) AND (be sure to enjoy <strong>Gale Storm<\/strong> singing <em><strong>I hear you knocking <\/strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">below the photo)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q3uTTsjPFcc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fellow regularly visits the side of my cedar sided home \u2014 just below my second floor office window. He taps rhythmically and I get up and put a long lens (in this case the 350 Telyt) on the R8\/DMR and tip toe out to catch him. No matter how I stalk him; wait for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4276,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}