{"id":4228,"date":"2013-03-05T22:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T08:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2013-03-05T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T08:23:13","slug":"mana-o-ku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/mana-o-ku\/","title":{"rendered":"Mana O Ku"},"content":{"rendered":"

I captured these native Hawaiian seabirds outside my office the other day. I’ve been watching the little baby for the past couple weeks sitting on that branch. Apparently these Mana-o-ku<\/a>, or white fairy terns return every year to this same branch to nest. “Nest” is a generous term because as far as I can tell there’s no nest up there of any kind. They just simply sit up there on that branch.<\/p>\n

Once or twice a day I’ve seen the mama bird go sea-bound to catch fish, leaving the baby bird sitting up there on the branch for what seems like a 4 or 5 hour stretch all by itself. It’s a little precarious to say the least, not to mention a bit sketchy being a little\u00a0vulnerable\u00a0puffball bait for predators. But day after day, it’s still there and growing — probably the reason we’ve seen these same birds return to the same spot year after year since it’s apparently so safe.<\/p>\n

\"Hi

Hi Mom<\/p><\/div>\n

\"I'm

I’m starvin’<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Snuggle\"

Snuggle<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Just

Just me and mom<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I captured these native Hawaiian seabirds outside my office the other day. I’ve been watching the little baby for the past couple weeks sitting on that branch. Apparently these Mana-o-ku, or white fairy terns return every year to this same branch to nest. “Nest” is a generous term because as far as I can tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,314,322,56,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration-2","category-lowestudio-photos","category-personal","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}