{"id":1252,"date":"2019-04-28T20:01:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2019-04-28T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T01:01:50","slug":"creature-feature-2019-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2019-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2019 #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, what took me so long to get the first Creature Feature of 2019 posted? I’ve been busy, and the screwy weather hasn’t helped. Anyway, on with the show…
\nWith the light being what it was, all I can say about this guy is “Bird”:
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\nOn a nice warm day like this, Turtles were out all over the place:
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\nPlus some other creatures:
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\nYes, Dragonflies are coming out now. Give ’em another month and they’ll be everywhere:
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\nThe Ducks are, of course, here year-round (a bit surprising I didn’t see a female in this group):
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\nThe Osprey<\/A> were out and about too:
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\nThey always have a nest on top of the water-system intake structure. I wasn’t sure, but upon a close look there is a head in there amongst the branches, towards the left side.
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\nThe calling made it clear, though, that someone was home. As luck would have at, after I came ashore I was sitting on the dock taking in the view and the breeze when I spotted an Osprey overhead. I watched as he almost stopped in mid-air, hovered a bit, then tucked into a dive right straight down into the water. I didn’t see if he came up with anything, but it was neat to watch. Unfortunately, I was sitting on the dock and my camera was in the boat over by the ramp. Oh well.
\nOne inlet I went up turned out to be where the meeting must have been being held. A whole bunch of Double-crested Cormorants<\/A> and Herons decided to head the other way (I hope the meeting was just breaking up, not that I broke it up):
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\nOf course, we have the obligatory Great Blue Heron<\/A> picture:
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\nAs usual, click on the pictures for a full-res version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know, what took me so long to get the first Creature Feature of 2019 posted? I’ve been busy, and the screwy weather hasn’t helped. Anyway, on with the show… With the light being what it was, all I can say about this guy is “Bird”: On a nice warm day like this, Turtles were […]<\/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-1252","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\/1252","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=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}