{"id":1194,"date":"2018-11-03T19:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T00:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2018-11-03T19:56:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T00:56:45","slug":"creature-feature-2018-5-catchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2018-5-catchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2018 #5 catchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little catch up. I&#8217;ve been so tied up since the summer, I never had a chance to post these. Believing it&#8217;s better late than never, here&#8217;s some pictures from last summer.<br \/>\nI believe this is a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Prothonotary_Warbler\/id\">Prothonotary Warbler<\/A> I&#8217;d seen only <A HREF=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2013-2\/\">once before<\/A>:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2bwM4kC\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP0341_0001_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2cyknuJ\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP0343_0001_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nI <A HREF=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2018-4\/\">mentioned<\/A> that not all the creatures I see while paddling around the lake are aquatic. This raccoon, while not really aquatic, doesn&#8217;t seem to mind the water.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2bwM3os\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP0475_0001_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nMeanwhile, back on shore, I had herds of hummingbirds through most of August. I&#8217;d see 6 or 8 at one time swarming around the feeders, which I had to fill every day. I took to mixing up hummingbird fuel by the gallon.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/QuZdiu\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP0619_0006_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nMy point with these pictures isn&#8217;t so much that they&#8217;re good pictures (these guys are small and <em>fast<\/em>), but I did catch some that really showed how they can maneuver.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2cykmnJ\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP0604_0009_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nLike this one in an almost-90 degree bank leaving the feeder:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2cCPDhz\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP0555_0002_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nAt times it got rather crowded, and it seemed the sky wasn&#8217;t big enough for two of &#8217;em. No, there was no mirror between these two:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2cykmMS\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP0511_0008_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little catch up. I&#8217;ve been so tied up since the summer, I never had a chance to post these. Believing it&#8217;s better late than never, here&#8217;s some pictures from last summer. I believe this is a Prothonotary Warbler I&#8217;d seen only once before: I mentioned that not all the creatures I see while paddling [&hellip;]<\/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-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","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=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}