{"id":1529,"date":"2022-09-04T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2022-09-04T12:43:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T17:43:45","slug":"creature-feature-2022-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2022-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2022 #5"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was planning a bike ride this morning, but there was just a bit too much fog in the area for my tastes, or risk analysis. A quick change of plans got me out on the lake<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

Some Double-Crested Cormorants<\/a> are still hanging around:
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\nGreat Egrets are around this time of year, but this isn’t one of them. This is actually a juvenile Little Blue Heron<\/a> (fool me once…):
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\nThe Geese<\/a> are, of course, here year-round:
\n<\/a>
\nThese Geese might have been migrating, but I suspect they were locals out practicing migration formations:
\n<\/a>
\nThis Osprey<\/a> seemed to be just playing around in the wind. I’m sure, though, that if he spotted a fish, play time would have turned quickly into lunch time:
\n<\/a>
\nNow here’s<\/b> the Great Egret<\/a>:
\n<\/a>
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\nAnd, of course, the Great Blue Heron<\/a> picture. This one was standing on top of a duck house at the end of a backwater and didn’t seem concerned at all about my approach.
\n<\/a>
\nThis one was hanging out near the Cormorant and decided to head off into the fog:
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I was planning a bike ride this morning, but there was just a bit too much fog in the area for my tastes, or risk analysis. A quick change of plans got me out on the lake instead. Some Double-Crested Cormorants are still hanging around: Great Egrets are around this time of year, but this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","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=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}