{"id":399,"date":"2019-05-14T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/drongo-shower-at-dempseys\/"},"modified":"2019-05-14T08:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T06:26:35","slug":"drongo-shower-at-dempseys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/drongo-shower-at-dempseys\/","title":{"rendered":"Drongo Shower at Dempsey&#8217;s!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you can&#8217;t beat the rain, join it! While the rain was recently pounding down, one of our resident fork- tailed <a title=\"Fork-tailed drongo\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fork-tailed_drongo\">drongos<\/a> enjoyed a lengthy rain shower. He was unphased by the attention and camera clicking. The noise in the video is the rain falling heavily on the roof close by and occasionally drops of water are\u00a0visible in the video.  Soon we hope to share some photos of baby drongo birds:) Three adults are in charge of the nest in our <a title=\"Gallery of Dempsey's Guest House\" href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/gallery\/\">garden<\/a> and they are doing a sterling job at protecting their young.  &nbsp;  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DJd6CJC9TOE  <figure id=\"attachment_2824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2824\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/drongo-shower-at-dempseys\/012a-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2824\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2824 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/012a-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"keeping watch\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keeping watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>  <figure id=\"attachment_2822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2822\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/drongo-shower-at-dempseys\/009-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2822\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2822 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/009-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"free as a bird\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free as a bird.<\/figcaption><\/figure>  <figure id=\"attachment_2823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2823\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/drongo-shower-at-dempseys\/012-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2823\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2823 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/012-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"water droplets from rain shower\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water droplets from rain shower<\/figcaption><\/figure>  <figure id=\"attachment_2825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2825\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/drongo-shower-at-dempseys\/013-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2825\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2825 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/013-350x234.jpg\" alt=\"fork-tailed drongo at dempsey's\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fork-tailed drongo at Dempsey&#8217;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you can&#8217;t beat the rain, join it! While the rain was recently pounding down, one of our resident fork- tailed drongos enjoyed a lengthy rain shower. He was unphased by the attention and camera clicking. The noise in the video is the rain falling heavily on the roof close by and occasionally drops of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,11,8,10,9,12],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-dempseys","tag-nelson-mandela-bay","tag-news","tag-port-elizabeth","tag-sights","tag-tourists","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dempseys.co.za\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}