{"id":14,"date":"2006-05-16T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-05-19T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T21:23:24","slug":"making-traps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/making-traps\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Traps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[The links here are to pictures from the <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/traps\/\">gallery of pictures from today<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>Today was the day to make traps to catch birds.  What we had to make were &#8220;funnel traps&#8221;  Basically, picture a bird feeder in a wire mesh cage.  The cage has <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/traps\/entry.png.html\">some &#8220;funnel&#8221; shaped entrances<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that it&#8217;s easy to get in, but hard to get out.  Not really a &#8220;trap&#8221; per se, just some kind of probabilistic thing that on average contains more birds as time goes on.<\/p>\n<p>So, we got some hardware cloth (chicken wire with small gaps) and other stuff at the hardware store.  We had to cart this back to campus&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/traps\/img_3916.jpg.html\">the bike came in handy<\/a>, but we got some funny looks.<\/p>\n<p>We set out to make <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/traps\/img_3930.jpg.html\">the cages<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/traps\/img_3933.jpg.html\">the funnels<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/traps\/img_3945.jpg.html\">It all came together<\/a> pretty well, I think.<\/p>\n<p>But, cut hardware cloth has a lot of pointy bits.  It <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2006\/traps\/img_3948.jpg.html\">looks like I&#8217;ve been attacked<\/a> by an angry cat.<\/p>\n<p>Kat&#8217;s plan this week is basically to do everything she can to get some birds.  Keith gets back next week, and she&#8217;ll definitely have <em>something<\/em> to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The links here are to pictures from the gallery of pictures from today.] Today was the day to make traps to catch birds. What we had to make were &#8220;funnel traps&#8221; Basically, picture a bird feeder in a wire mesh cage. The cage has some &#8220;funnel&#8221; shaped entrances. The idea is that it&#8217;s easy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}