{"id":1259,"date":"2019-05-19T19:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2019-05-19T19:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T00:15:22","slug":"creature-feature-2019-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2019 #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll start this one a little closer to home. I don&#8217;t see many turtles (or, in fact, any) around the house, but this one was crossing the driveway.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2eKGKJ1\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMG_20190513_070310317_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nAs there wasn&#8217;t a lot of traffic that might endanger him, I left her to make her own way.<br \/>\nCan you spot the snake? I almost missed this guy, but fortunately I did because I was armed with a lawnmower at the time.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2fSRQNj\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMG_20190427_133500670_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re still having trouble seeing the creature:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"\/media\/IMG_20190427_133500670_annotated.jpg\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMG_20190427_133500670_annotated_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nOk, he&#8217;s still pretty hard to see.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule pushed me to make my lake outing at an usual time of day: evening. The light was fading, making it less than ideal for photography, but I did catch this one illustrating why <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/double-crested_cormorant\">Double Crested Cormorants<\/A> are often called &#8220;snake birds&#8221;:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2fXs8ux\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP1715_0004_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nYes, that&#8217;s a Great Blue Heron in the background. Here&#8217;s the real obligatory <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/great_blue_heron\">Great Blue Heron<\/A> picture:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2eKGhch\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP1774_0001_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nI tried to catch the sun dog, but the photograph just doesn&#8217;t do it justice.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2fSRL63\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP1760_0002_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nStill, it was a nice evening to finally get out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll start this one a little closer to home. I don&#8217;t see many turtles (or, in fact, any) around the house, but this one was crossing the driveway. As there wasn&#8217;t a lot of traffic that might endanger him, I left her to make her own way. Can you spot the snake? I almost missed [&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-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","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=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}