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<\/A><\/p>\nOsprey<\/A> showing us would-be fliers how it’s done: Ducks<\/A> and geese<\/A> are around all the time. Grabbed the camera when I saw this bird flying over head. I wasn’t sure, but a close look at this not-so-great photo shows that he is a Bald Eagle<\/A>: Humans spend a lot of effort keeping their aircraft in top shape and making sure everything is in place prior to flight. Then along comes a ;Turkey Vulture<\/A> missing a bunch of primaries flying around like it’s nothing: I’m not sure if I never noticed this spot before, or just as likely maybe something has changed, and I found this little inlet to a nice lush forested wetland. And, of course, the obligatory Great Blue Heron<\/A> pic. I spotted this one on top of a snag through the trees: I know, where have I been? Or, more importantly, where have the Creature Features been? The short answer, keeping my head down and out of the line of sneeze. I’d made a couple short excursions out on the lake this month, but it took a holiday (US) to spend some Real Time out there and […]<\/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-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAnd how to operate in tight spaces:
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\nOsprey chick on the nest. I’m pretty sure that’s a chick there, because if the adults are around, they’ll be warning me off by the time I get this close.
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\nFor the record, I heed their warnings, because, hey, they’re the parents, they know what’s best for their little ones.<\/p>\n
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\nThere are duck boxes all around the lake. I’ve never seen a duck use one, and they’re all in some degree of decay. This one seems to have aspirations of being a Chia Duck Box:
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\nHow apropos for a national holiday.<\/p>\n
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\nAlways when I start thinking I’ve seen it all out there, Nature throws something else in front of me. Speaking of which, lots of squirrels hang around under the bird feeders in my back yard, but this chipmunk snuck in with them:
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\nThey always look so awkward when they launch from a tree…
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\nbut once on those big broad wings, they’re as graceful as any bird.
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