{"id":1000,"date":"2011-01-18T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T08:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2019-03-08T20:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T09:23:50","slug":"pruning-and-birdsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/pruning-and-birdsong\/","title":{"rendered":"PRUNING AND BIRDSONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-bbq.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1002\" title=\"otways-national-park-bbq\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-bbq.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"BBQ area in the Otways National Park, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-baked-potato.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1003\" title=\"otways-national-park-baked-potato\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-baked-potato.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Baked potato on picnic table in the Otways National Park, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-picnic-dinner.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1004\" title=\"otways-national-park-picnic-dinner\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-picnic-dinner.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Picnic dinner in the Otways National Park, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-river.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1005\" title=\"otways-national-park-river\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-river.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"River flowing through the rainforest in the Otways National Park, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-river-walk.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1006\" title=\"otways-national-park-river-walk\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-river-walk.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Dylan taking my parents for a walk down the river in the Otways National Park, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-birds-nest.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1007\" title=\"otways-national-park-birds-nest\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-birds-nest.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Bird's nest in a rainforest tree in the Otways National Park, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-look-out.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1008\" title=\"otways-national-park-lookout\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-look-out.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Lookout in the Otways National Park, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-ferns-tree-trunk.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1009\" title=\"otways-national-park-ferns-tree-trunk\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-ferns-tree-trunk.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Fern covered tree in the Otways National Park, Australia\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-pruning-tree-branches.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"gal[1000]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1010\" title=\"otways-national-park-pruning-tree-branches\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-pruning-tree-branches.jpg?resize=660%2C495\" alt=\"Dylan cutting tree branches off the path\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lovely picnic in the Otways National Park with my parents.\u00a0 The air is so damp and sweet there and the cracking of the fire and birdsong is the only distraction. Dylan always relishes the opportunity to be a proper woodsman and pruned branches off the path much to my parents&#8217; amusement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely picnic in the Otways National Park with my parents.\u00a0 The air is so damp and sweet there and the cracking of the fire and birdsong is the only distraction. Dylan always relishes the opportunity to be a proper woodsman and pruned branches off the path much to my parents&#8217; amusement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[88,152,33,153,89],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-travel","tag-holidays","tag-national-park","tag-otways","tag-river","tag-weekend-away"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/otways-national-park-fire.jpg?fit=660%2C495&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4l1F7-g8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17152,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/17152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedesertecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}