{"id":1121,"date":"2017-07-22T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2017-07-22T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:09:00","slug":"creature-feature-2017-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2017-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2017 #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed like things were pretty quiet around the lake this morning. We&#8217;re coming up on deep summer, the breeding season is winding down, and there&#8217;s plenty of food around. A good time to just sit back and relax a bit.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WZBwgn\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP8642_0004_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nHumans, however, never seem to let up. I suppose if you mow hay on a hillside enough, a roll is bound to get away.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/VHqUfC\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP8624_0005_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nAs I was working my way up the lake, I spotted a bird rather high up. From the size, I just assumed he was a Great Blue Heron, and tried to get a picture. A bird high up in the sky is a difficult photo target, because they&#8217;re small, and the bright sky can obscure any detail of the bird. Anyway, once I got a look at the picture, I wasn&#8217;t so sure about my identification.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/WZBAYZ\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP8623_0006_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nA while later, as I was thinking I wasn&#8217;t going to see anything special today, I saw a large bird on the side of the lake, apparently well into brunch.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Wp83Ef\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP8650_0002_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nAh, <em><strong>that&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> what I saw up high, and yes, that was no Heron.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/VL9Eyc\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP8647_0003_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nYeah, a Bald Eagle, right here in Laurens County.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/VHqC2A\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP8653_0001_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed like things were pretty quiet around the lake this morning. We&#8217;re coming up on deep summer, the breeding season is winding down, and there&#8217;s plenty of food around. A good time to just sit back and relax a bit. Humans, however, never seem to let up. I suppose if you mow hay on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}