{"id":1740,"date":"2025-08-03T17:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2025-08-03T17:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T22:32:50","slug":"creature-feature-2025-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2025-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2025 #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot going on lately, so I&#8217;ve been slack about posting here. Here&#8217;s some catch up from the last few trips out on the lake.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/osprey\">Osprey<\/A> were out and about. &#8220;Where&#8217;s the fish?? You were supposed to pick up fish on your way home!&#8221;<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkoCTV\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2248_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\n&#8220;Alright, alright, I&#8217;ll go back and get the fish!&#8221;<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkuyLx\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2250_tn.png\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>A <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/double-crested-cormorant\">Cormorant<\/A> enjoying some sun, they&#8217;re still around:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkuyGe\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2322_tn.png\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/mallard\">Mallards<\/A> hanging out:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rku6az\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2590_tn.png\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>Lest you think it&#8217;s all birds out there&#8230;<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rku66M\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2635_tn.png\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>An Heron exercise in camouflage (gotta get in the obligatory <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.audubon.org\/field-guide\/bird\/great-blue-heron\">Great Blue Heron<\/A> picture&#8230; pictures):<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rku6ec\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2227_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nHerons don&#8217;t just wade along the shore. They go up in the trees too.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rktWKc\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2629_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nThis Heron flew right in front of me to land on the shore:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkuyGE\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2637_tn.png\"><\/A><br \/>\nGotta get everything secured from the flight configuration, that&#8217;s a lot of wing to stow:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2rkuyCS\"><IMG SRC=\"\/media\/IMGP2643_tn.png\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot going on lately, so I&#8217;ve been slack about posting here. Here&#8217;s some catch up from the last few trips out on the lake. Osprey were out and about. &#8220;Where&#8217;s the fish?? You were supposed to pick up fish on your way home!&#8221; &#8220;Alright, alright, I&#8217;ll go back and get the fish!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}