{"id":1607,"date":"2023-09-10T18:45:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2023-09-10T18:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:45:17","slug":"creature-feature-2023-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2023-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2023 #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, I’ve got some catchin’ up to do with the pictures. I’ve been out there with the camera, but been a bit preoccupied trying to figure out how to ride a mountain bike.<\/p>\n

Speaking of mountain bikes, you can see some odd things along the trails, like this “appliance in the woods” I found beside the Long Cane Horse Trail<\/a>:
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\nI’d really like to know what that small freezer was doing out in the middle of the woods, and why it’s so celebrated.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to the lake, Great Egrets<\/a> are here, I usually see them just in the late summer – early autumn.
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Feast day for the spiders stringing webs around the bridge:
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I don’t recall seeing ducks like these before, but they are ducks:
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I’m not sure what drew in these Black Vultures<\/a>, maybe they just wanted some time at the beach:
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Nature’s lesson: just because a tree has died, that doesn’t mean it’s contribution to the forest is at an end:
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Now this could be noteworthy, if my identification is correct:
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\nThis seems to match pictures and other information for a Limpkin<\/a>. That is, matches everything except the range maps, which show Limpkins inhabiting no farther north than Florida. Climate change in action?<\/p>\n

And, of course the obligatory Great Blue Heron<\/a> pictures:
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\nAnd, yes, they do fly in the fog. They must be equipped for IFR.
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We’ve had some neat sunrises lately. I’ll leave you with this one:
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I know, I’ve got some catchin’ up to do with the pictures. I’ve been out there with the camera, but been a bit preoccupied trying to figure out how to ride a mountain bike. Speaking of mountain bikes, you can see some odd things along the trails, like this “appliance in the woods” I found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}