{"id":1405,"date":"2021-05-23T09:43:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T14:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2021-05-23T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T14:43:11","slug":"creature-feature-2021-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2021-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2021 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll kick off this creature feature in my back yard. I went out back doing a couple of chores and something caught my eye. There, under a couple low branches, was a small <A HREF=\"https:\/\/en-academic.com\/dic.nsf\/enwiki\/309238\">fawn<\/A> in the grass. He was so small I could probably have picked him up with one hand (not that I&#8217;d try of course):<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2m1dEuw\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP5293_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nThey grow fast though:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2m19Fb1\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP5305_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nThere was plenty of &#8220;lawn maintenance&#8221; going on this morning. These <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Canada_Goose\">geese<\/A> were<br \/>\nworking on the lake dam:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2m162sC\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP5317_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nAnd <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/American_Crow\">crows<\/A> were working the other side of the lake:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2m19EXf\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP5358_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nThe new nesting platform that was put up for the <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Osprey\/\">Osprey<\/A> looks to have had some activity since I was last out there a few weeks ago. Seems kind of late in the season to be starting a nest, but I&#8217;m sure the Osprey know what they&#8217;re doing.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2m19F1G\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP5340_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nAnd, of course, the obligatory <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Great_Blue_Heron\">Great Blue Heron<\/A> picture:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2m162vd\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP5309_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nPlus a bonus!<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2m1aKkU\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP5348_tn.png\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll kick off this creature feature in my back yard. I went out back doing a couple of chores and something caught my eye. There, under a couple low branches, was a small fawn in the grass. He was so small I could probably have picked him up with one hand (not that I&#8217;d try [&hellip;]<\/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-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","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=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}