{"id":18,"date":"2026-05-01T18:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/?p=18"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:02:20","slug":"through-the-binoculars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Through the Binoculars:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Belted Kingfisher<\/strong> Wildlife photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/mindpowergallery.com\/rebecca-bartow\/\">Becky Bartow r<\/a>ecently shared her experiences photographing the Belted Kingfisher, a fascinating bird recognized by its shaggy crest and dagger-like bill. Kingfishers hover over water and plunge headfirst to catch fish, frogs, and crustaceans. Bartow recounted a rare opportunity at a local pond where she witnessed and photographed extraordinary courtship behavior between a male and female Kingfisher, an event that involved the male diving and presenting his catch to the female while issuing a loud chatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belted Kingfisher Wildlife photographer Becky Bartow recently shared her experiences photographing the Belted Kingfisher, a fascinating bird recognized by its shaggy crest and dagger-like bill. Kingfishers hover over water and plunge headfirst to catch fish, frogs, and crustaceans. Bartow recounted a rare opportunity at a local pond where she witnessed and photographed extraordinary courtship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewakeup.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}