{"id":1286,"date":"2019-10-27T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T00:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2019-10-27T19:29:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T00:29:39","slug":"creature-feature-2019-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2019-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2019 #7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, where have I been? Lately my calendar has looked more like grated Swiss cheese, rather than anything with any sense of order. Oh well, at least it can serve as a source of entropy if I need more random numbers.<\/p>\n

The weather lately has had me guessing if I’m opening the windows to cool off the house or warm it up. This afternoon it turned into the latter, and I took advantage of that post-cold-front downslope-warmed air to get out on the lake a bit.<\/p>\n

It must have been a good soaring day, because the large birds were up there, like this Black Vulture<\/A>:
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\nA lot of the part-timers have moved to their winter homes, but the Canada Geese<\/A> are year-rounders here:
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\nOn a nice sunny day like this, the turtles were out all over the place taking advantage:
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\nWait! Don’t go! Dang wind drifted me too close…
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\nI’m not sure why this Great Blue Heron<\/A> was holding his beak open like this; it looks like maybe he was having an issue swallowing something.
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\nShe was able to fly away as the wind drifted me in just a little too close (again – I try to not do that):
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I generally like to keep a positive note, but this was one of those times when I came back in with more litter than pictures to post.
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\nWith all of Nature out there to enjoy, why the beer (which, BTW, is prohibited by the lake rules<\/A>, as is, of course, littering)? And evidently there are people who think the lake needs more water. News: it doesn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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