{"id":1599,"date":"2023-07-04T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2023-07-04T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T22:03:07","slug":"creature-feature-2023-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2023-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2023 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day to my US viewers! Here&#8217;s a few pics from my last couple of trips out on the lake.<\/p>\n<p>I like to start our early, so here&#8217;s a nice sunrise picture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMu6cG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9348_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nAnd at sunrise, birds have a lot to say (light was too bad to ID this one):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMu65n\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9303_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White-tailed_deer\">Deer<\/a> like to come out to the lake too:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMvGSg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9398_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nI was tracking the <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/animals\/beaver\">Beaver<\/a> in the background when the one on the right, that I didn&#8217;t see, sounded the alarm:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMvH1Y\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9435_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/canada-goose\">Canada Geese<\/a> in the early morning sun:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMtcRY\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9711_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/mallard\">Ducks<\/a> and geese hangin&#8217; out together:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMu61V\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9443_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nGathering of the wading birds in a tree:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMtcAN\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9615_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nDoor Dash at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/osprey\">Osprey<\/a> nest?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMvdXa\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9481_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the obligatory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/great-blue-heron\">Great Blue Heron<\/a> picture, on the hunt for breakfast:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMu5Tq\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9598_tn.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nNot close enough for a good picture, but as this is the Fourth of July, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/bald-eagle\">Bald Eagle<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2oMqfPy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/IMGP9509_tn.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day to my US viewers! Here&#8217;s a few pics from my last couple of trips out on the lake. I like to start our early, so here&#8217;s a nice sunrise picture. And at sunrise, birds have a lot to say (light was too bad to ID this one): The Deer like to come [&hellip;]<\/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-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","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=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}