{"id":1690,"date":"2024-09-02T19:49:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2024-09-02T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T00:49:52","slug":"creature-feature-2024-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2024-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2024 #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, where have I been? It seems like I’ve been in catch-up mode all summer, and I’ve been doing some volunteer work at a nearby wildlife rehab, the PAWS Animal Wildlife Sanctuary<\/A>. Really, it’s all<\/I> volunteer work, as the organization is all-volunteer. Mostly it’s been maintenance work, like pressure washing and clearing vegetation from flight pens and such, but I did have one Suptertastical weekend releasing two owls and two hawks that had gotten all better. There’s some videos on their facebook page<\/A>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, on to the lake. First, let me get this UFO-quality photo out of the way. I was heading up a narrow inlet when a Bald Eagle<\/A> came down the inlet and flew right past me. I had milliseconds to grab the camera and, well, this was the best I got:
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\nI’d been fooled by these guys before, thinking I was looking at Egrets, but I believe these are Little Blue Herons<\/A>. They’re all white when they’re young, like the one on the right, and the one on the left I’ll bet is starting to get his adult plumage.
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\nI got some neat shots of this Great Egret<\/A> (yes, this one really is<\/I> an Egret). As you can see, there are trees dropping leaves already, probably due to the lack of rain we’ve had for most of August.
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\n“Climb at Egret’s discretion.”
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\nThat’s a Killdeer<\/A> in the background getting lunch. The foreground bird looks like a sandpiper, but I couldn’t really match him up to get a decent ID. Most possibilities have a line across the eye, but this one didn’t have any such marking. Maybe<\/I> a Solitary Sandpiper<\/A>?
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\nTwo female Mallards<\/A>. “You watch that way, I’ll watch this way.”
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\nAnd, of course, the obligatory Great Blue Heron<\/A> picture:
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So, where have I been? It seems like I’ve been in catch-up mode all summer, and I’ve been doing some volunteer work at a nearby wildlife rehab, the PAWS Animal Wildlife Sanctuary. Really, it’s all volunteer work, as the organization is all-volunteer. Mostly it’s been maintenance work, like pressure washing and clearing vegetation from flight […]<\/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-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","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=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}