{"id":6696,"date":"2026-01-28T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/2026\/01\/28\/the-caped-cruseeder\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T17:57:42","slug":"the-caped-cruseeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/2026\/01\/28\/the-caped-cruseeder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Caped Cruseeder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Origin Story <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17696321388197E2333445624842693209-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6695\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17696321388197E2333445624842693209-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17696321388197E2333445624842693209-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17696321388197E2333445624842693209-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17696321388197E2333445624842693209-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17696321388197E2333445624842693209-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/17696321388197E2333445624842693209.jpg 1760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By day, he is just Barry, a mild-mannered Eastern Bluebird with a penchant for mealworms and cheerful warbling. But Barry harbors a dark past.<br \/>Seasons ago, during the Great Famine of Mid-February, Barry watched helplessly as the notorious &#8220;Bushy-Tail Syndicate&#8221;\u2014a ruthless gang of gray squirrels\u2014raided the neighborhood&#8217;s prime feeder. They didn&#8217;t just eat; they destroyed. They spilled the premium black oil sunflower seeds onto the muddy ground below, laughing their chittering laughs.<br \/>The carnage changed Barry. He realized that being just another pretty songbird wasn&#8217;t enough. The backyard needed a guardian. A symbol.<br \/>Scavenging a scrap of highly durable, weather-resistant blue fabric dropped near a human&#8217;s clothesline, Barry fashioned a cowl to mask his identity and a cape to aid his aerodynamic dives. He trained in the shadows of the deck, honing his skills: stealth gliding, super-avian vision capable of spotting a whisker twitch at fifty yards, and the &#8220;Beak of Justice&#8221;\u2014a rapid-peck technique that can disarm a rodent three times his size.<br \/>Now, when the sun sets and the nocturnal pests emerge, Barry leaves his nest. He perches silently on the yellow Bird Buddy feeder, a lone sentinel against the chaos.<br \/>He is the terror that flaps in the night. He is the guardian of the grain. He is&#8230; The Caped Cruseeder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Origin Story By day, he is just Barry, a mild-mannered Eastern Bluebird with a penchant for mealworms and cheerful warbling. But Barry harbors a dark past.Seasons ago, during the Great Famine of Mid-February, Barry watched helplessly as the notorious &#8220;Bushy-Tail Syndicate&#8221;\u2014a ruthless gang of gray squirrels\u2014raided the neighborhood&#8217;s prime feeder. They didn&#8217;t just eat; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/2026\/01\/28\/the-caped-cruseeder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Caped Cruseeder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[182,1270],"tags":[1422,1393,1423],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-feathered-friends","tag-birdbuddy","tag-birdfeeder","tag-eastern-bluebird"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7444,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions\/7444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}