{"id":1188,"date":"2018-06-03T19:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T00:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2018-06-03T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T00:11:25","slug":"creature-feature-2018-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2018-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2018 #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing about going up all these little inlets and backwaters I like to frequent is that not all the creatures I see are really aquatic, like this Gray Squirrel:
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\nBut there’s plenty that are quite happy in and around the water, like the Osprey, who are working their nest on top of the water system’s intake structure:
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\nOf course, it’s only been a week since my last report, and it’s still Dragonfly season out there:
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\nA lot of them are flying in “extremely close formation”, like these two that I just barely caught with the camera:
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\nFor today’s obligatory Great Blue Heron picture, I startled this one when I came around a bend and didn’t see her there:
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\nIf you’ve ever wondered how you land a bird of this size (or, more accurately, how a bird of this size lands a bird of this size)…
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\nScrub off a little speed..
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\nPlan a full-stall landing (there can’t be much lift left there)…
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\nAnd put the landing gear …er… feet down before touchdown:
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One thing about going up all these little inlets and backwaters I like to frequent is that not all the creatures I see are really aquatic, like this Gray Squirrel: But there’s plenty that are quite happy in and around the water, like the Osprey, who are working their nest on top of the water […]<\/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-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","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=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}