{"id":1503,"date":"2022-05-30T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T19:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2022-05-30T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T19:48:58","slug":"memorial-day-creature-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/memorial-day-creature-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day, Creature Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, let me wish my US readers an enjoyable and significant Memorial Day Holiday, and ask that everyone keep in mind that “memorial” means “remembering”, and today is all about remembering something Very Important: all those who gave up their lives in service to this country. Regardless of what you may think about the circumstances that lead to these sacrifices, you have to respect that these people did what was asked of them and gave it everything they had, literally. So let’s take a moment here to reflect on that.
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\nOk, back to today’s creature feature, which is 2022’s #2 if you’re keeping count.<\/p>\n

First I’ll start close to home. Or office. Well, really those are the same thing these days, but at the time I was using my back porch as my Big Conference Room when this guy came by to zoom-bomb us. However, he didn’t seem much interested in what we were doing in the data center, so he moved along.
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Now out onto the lake. By the way, if anyone is curious, the track is on Strava<\/a>. This link<\/a> might get you there, but you’ll need an account, which is free, except for the hassle of creating Yet Another “free” account. I wondered if by posting there I’ll be giving away all my secret favorite little places, but, heck, you’re not getting into them with a bass boat.<\/p>\n

I found where these little blue dragon flies were busy. Unfortunately they’re really small and hard to even see, much less get a picture of. This is the best I could get:
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\nBack out on the main part of the lake, the geese and their geeselets<\/a> were enjoying a family outing:
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\nThe Osprey<\/a> were making good use of the platform the humans put up for them near the dam. Don’t worry, I’m not getting any closer…
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\nwhile your partner is out hunting…
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\num, I’m not a fish.
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\nNeat how the landing gear stows away so neatly:
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\nA Black Vulture<\/a> was soaring up high:
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\nSometimes a camera just isn’t the right tool to capture wildlife. I know there was at least one Kingfisher<\/a> in these trees, I could hear them clearly.
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\nI saw a bunch of these little birds darting around. I was surprised I managed to capture a picture of one in flight.
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\nTurtles were out in numerous places. That one did some serious climbing to get up there.
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\nAnd Mallards<\/a> were foraging along the shore. um, I think<\/i> those are mallards…
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\nYup, MR Ducks!
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And now, the obligatory Great Blue Heron<\/a> picture:
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\nWhat the heck, it’s a holiday, have another on the house:
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First off, let me wish my US readers an enjoyable and significant Memorial Day Holiday, and ask that everyone keep in mind that “memorial” means “remembering”, and today is all about remembering something Very Important: all those who gave up their lives in service to this country. Regardless of what you may think about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","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=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}