{"id":7371,"date":"2020-01-17T08:06:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2020-01-17T08:06:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T13:06:14","slug":"theyre-baaaaaak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=7371","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re baaaaaak!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who you ask? Bluebirds, of course. We live in St. Charles and in our 27 years of living here we&#8217;ve only had bluebirds show up the past few springs and summers while they raise their broods. We also put our dried meal worms to help keep them around until they migrate.<br \/><br \/>Well, this is the first winter they showed back up in the area. As our state bird, they are always a delight to see. While feeding on our suet, I managed to fire off a few snaps before they departed back into the woods behind our home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-attachment-id=\"7368\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?attachment_id=7368\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hmoran-25274-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Hal Moran&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1579189962&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;copyright by Hal Moran&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;600&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hmoran-25274-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hmoran-25274-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hmoran-25274-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hmoran-25274-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hmoran-25274-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hmoran-25274-1.jpg?resize=1050%2C700&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hmoran-25274-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hmoran-25274-1.jpg?resize=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Prints are available<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"779\" height=\"900\" data-attachment-id=\"7369\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?attachment_id=7369\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HMoran-25303.jpg?fit=779%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"779,900\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Hal Moran&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1579189841&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;copyright by Hal Moran&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;600&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HMoran-25303\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HMoran-25303.jpg?fit=779%2C900&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HMoran-25303.jpg?resize=779%2C900&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HMoran-25303.jpg?w=779&amp;ssl=1 779w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HMoran-25303.jpg?resize=260%2C300&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HMoran-25303.jpg?resize=768%2C887&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HMoran-25303.jpg?resize=300%2C347&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.halmoran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/HMoran-25303.jpg?resize=600%2C693&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><figcaption> Prints are available <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who you ask? Bluebirds, of course. We live in St. Charles and in our 27 years of living here we&#8217;ve only had bluebirds show up the past few springs and summers while they raise their broods. We also put our dried meal worms to help keep them around until they migrate. Well, this is the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=7371\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>They&#039;re baaaaaak! - Hal Moran - a wandering (bird) photographer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.halmoran.com\/?p=7371\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"They&#039;re baaaaaak! - Hal Moran - a wandering (bird) photographer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who you ask? 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