{"id":1221,"date":"2018-12-29T21:30:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T02:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2018-12-29T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T02:30:55","slug":"creature-feature-2018-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2018-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2018 #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing about weather in the Carolinas, if you don’t like it, just wait a minute. In my last post<\/A> a little over a month ago I was out in near-freezing conditions to take a walk in the woods. Then we had sleet. Then astronomical winter started. Today it was warm enough to put on shorts and a T-shirt and wring one last lake trip out of my 2018 boat permit<\/A>.
\nA couple months ago<\/A>, things looked like this:
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\nWhat a difference a season makes:
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\nSo now we’re getting into winter (again?), and everyone is settling in, and not a lot of wildlife is visible. Many have left for the winter, and those here (either wintering or year-round) are keeping a low profile. Like these Cormorants<\/A>:
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\nAnd some Buffleheads<\/A>:
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\nI was trying to get a picture of something else and ended up with this bit of “artwork”:
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\nWith the lake level up from recent rains (we’ve been getting a good bit of that lately), I was able to get in to more nooks and crannies around the lake. Like this little spot:
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\nA floating bit of debris up ahead? Or…
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\nIt’s not often you see floating debris with a nose and eyes…
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\nYeah, that was a Beaver.
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\nTurtles were out too catching some late-season sun:
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\nSo, that’s most of the major groups, birds, mammals, and reptiles. And one plastic boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing about weather in the Carolinas, if you don’t like it, just wait a minute. In my last post a little over a month ago I was out in near-freezing conditions to take a walk in the woods. Then we had sleet. Then astronomical winter started. Today it was warm enough to put on […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","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=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}