{"id":1182,"date":"2018-05-27T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T00:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2018-05-28T06:16:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T11:16:20","slug":"creature-feature-2018-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2018-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2018 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lake was all silted up from all the recent rains, but all that runoff raised up the water level so I could get into more of the nooks & crannies around the lake.
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\nIt’s definitely the Time of the Dragon, Dragon Flies<\/em>, that is:
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\nThis one probably just emerged: that looks like their shed larval skin on the branch:
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\nThe Geese have definitely been busy. I came across a large group of Gooselets (and just a few adults) along the shore. They split up (perhaps with all those little ones, I made them nervous), pretty much evenly, and while one group went into the woods, this group continued along the shore. I suspect the met up later.
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\nI’ve said it before, just when I think I’ve seen all the lake has to show me, nature throws something else at me. As I was paddling up one of those little crannies, I saw two large birds moving around in the trees. I first thought “hawk”, but once I got to where I could actually see one, I realized this was something new (to me).
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\nGiven that I saw two of them (Barred Owls<\/A>, I believe), and this one was keeping a real close eye on me, I didn’t want to approach too close in case they had a nest nearby.<\/p>\n

Of course, we have the obligatory Great Blue Heron picture; this one had just taken off: they generally fold their necks a few seconds after takeoff.
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\nfollowed up by a nice full-stall landing. You can see how the airflow has separated across her wings.
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The lake was all silted up from all the recent rains, but all that runoff raised up the water level so I could get into more of the nooks & crannies around the lake. It’s definitely the Time of the Dragon, Dragon Flies, that is: This one probably just emerged: that looks like their shed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","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=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}