{"id":1377,"date":"2021-03-11T15:37:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2021-03-11T15:37:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T20:37:36","slug":"creature-feature-2021-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2021-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2021 #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s kind of early in the season, but with these unseasonably warm days, and needing to make up for a nearly-disastrous 2020, I decided to venture out on the lake for a bit. Being so early, I didn’t expect to get much in the way of wildlife pictures, but, well, below are the best of the 329 frames I came back with.<\/p>\n

The water sure seemed cold to me, but there were turtle heads poping up all over one area to eyeball me as I went by.
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\nAnd there were a few out enjoying the early spring sun.
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\nThis hawk was enjoying the sun and<\/em> the wind:
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\nWith the rains we’ve had, the lake level was ample to allow me to get into some of my favorite nooks, cranies, backwaters, and feeder creeks. Yes, I was up a creek, but I had my paddle.
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\nThe year-rounders were here, of course, like these Mallards:
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\n…just before they flew off…
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\nAnd the Canada Geese.
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\nThe small birds are out and about too, like this Chickadee:
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\nNow if these guys can get along, as different as they are, why can’t we?
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\nBy the way, that wasn’t the Obligatory Great Blue Heron picture. Wait for it…..
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\nAnd a second one to make up for lost time:
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It’s kind of early in the season, but with these unseasonably warm days, and needing to make up for a nearly-disastrous 2020, I decided to venture out on the lake for a bit. Being so early, I didn’t expect to get much in the way of wildlife pictures, but, well, below are the best of […]<\/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-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}