{"id":1381,"date":"2021-04-04T20:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2021-04-04T20:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T01:15:29","slug":"creature-feature-2021-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2021-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2021 #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring is defintely happening here! For those of you in more northern latitudes, if you haven’t seen those first Robins<\/A> of spring, rest assured they’re on the way. I don’t have any tracking, but I suspect they’ll be more reliable than some of our package delivery services lately.<\/p>\n

It was a really good day today to get out on the lake, and I couldn’t let it slide by. The camera was going full speed within 10 minutes of launching, but I’m going to back up just a bit to a couple of shots right in my own back yard, a relatively rare sighting:
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\nI’ve seen Pileated Woodpeckers<\/A> on occasion, but this was the first time I’ve gotten one on camera.<\/p>\n

Out on the lake, the Cormorants<\/A> were having a bit of a dust-up (can you have<\/em> a dust-up on the water?):
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\nGeting one of these airborne off the water takes some work. Ready…..
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\nLaunch!
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\nAnd a few more hops to get fully weight-on-wings:
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There’s a new nesting platform for the Osprey<\/A> near the lake dam, being checked out:
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\nand these guys were cavorting in the air nearby:
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Turtles! Everywhere there was something sticking out of the water, there were turtles!
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\nFollow the leader…
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A few Crows<\/A> gathered before crossing the lake:
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Of course, the Geese<\/A> are still here, but seem to be more dispersed, probably out nesting. This was was doing a little “airframe maintenance”:
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I’m please to report that the Bald Eagles<\/A> are still around too. I saw this one high above the lake:
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And, of course, the obligatory Great Blue Heron<\/A> picture:
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As usual, you can click on the pictures to get to a full-resolution version. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring is defintely happening here! For those of you in more northern latitudes, if you haven’t seen those first Robins of spring, rest assured they’re on the way. I don’t have any tracking, but I suspect they’ll be more reliable than some of our package delivery services lately. It was a really good day today […]<\/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-1381","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\/1381","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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}