{"id":1082,"date":"2017-03-09T19:20:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2017-03-09T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:20:46","slug":"creature-feature-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2017 #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my familiars stops by the back yard (where the food is, of course):
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The Ospreys were very active, cavorting in the air and working on their nest on top of the intake structure:
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\nThis is kind of interesting because it shows how their tip flight feathers splay and curve up to act as [what human aircraft designers call] winglets<\/A>:
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\nOf course, Osprey were using winglets long before humans produced the first inkling of aerodynamic lift.<\/p>\n

Got a good look at this Heron from across a little inlet, who also got a good look at me, naturally:
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\nA bit later, paddling out of the inlet, I reached for my camera to get a few more pictures of the Ospreys overhead, when I heard a floof floof floof<\/em> right behind my starboard side. The heron passed within a paddle’s-length of me.
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Ducks were hangin’ out:
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\nand it was a good day for the Turtles to be out getting some sun:
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Whenever I’ve become very familiar seeing something from one angle, like the spillway from the lake side:
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\nI always find it interesting when I suddenly get a look at it from the other side. I was wandering around the Lake Rabon park below the dam when I suddenly realized “OH… This is where the spillway spills out!”:
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\nIt didn’t look like it had been used in a long time. If there were leaves on the trees, you could easily miss it entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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