{"id":1148,"date":"2012-10-28T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2012-10-27T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T15:40:41","slug":"weavers-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1148","title":{"rendered":"Weavers in our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my opinion, there are few natural things as amazing to see as the nest of a weaver. In Namibia, there are the giant communal weaver nests, and there are the individual pair nests (built by two different species. The individual nests are built by bright yellow birds with a black eye patch). Both of them are amazing, because the birds somehow start with a single blade of grass, and then manage to weave together hundreds of pieces into a small structure that will eventually hold their young.<\/p>\n

We were excited because yesterday we saw a weaver had begun to build a nest in our back yard. This morning, however, there was no sign of it until I searched under the tree, and I found the half finished structure below. It’s worth taking a look at it to see how the stalks and blades of grass were actually woven together and around each other by a bird that was mostly hanging upside down from the partly finished nest. Where did it perch before the nest could support its weight? We’ll never know…<\/p>\n

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In my opinion, there are few natural things as amazing to see as the nest of a weaver. In Namibia, there are the giant communal weaver nests, and there are the individual pair nests (built by two different species. The individual nests are built by bright yellow birds with a black eye patch). Both of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[339,70],"tags":[108,620,619],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-namibia","category-random-musings","tag-bird","tag-nest","tag-weaver"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}