{"id":601,"date":"2013-10-27T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2013-10-27T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T02:08:12","slug":"creature-feature-2013-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2013-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2013 #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s quiet out on the lake now with the seasons changing. Many summer residents have fled south, and the year-rounders are hunkering down for the coming winter. Still, though, there&#8217;s plenty going on as &#8220;business as usual&#8221; continues for many.<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought a bit of vegetation had gotten lodged on the trash can by the house. This, of course, is exactly what this creature, a walking stick, wanted us to believe.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/5939607115011251586?pid=5939607115011251586&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP5783_0002_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I found interesting about the Space Shuttle (RIP) is how it transitions from a space vehicle, to an aircraft, and eventually to a ground vehicle. Birds do something similar in transitioning from a flier to a pedestrian, completely changing shape and how they move. Most birds, of course, do not go into space often. (obligatory Great Blue Heron picture)<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/5939607356059198034?pid=5939607356059198034&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP6486_0010_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>It was a cool, breezy day on the lake, one that many of the resident geese figured would be good to curl up with a good book &#8230; or, just curl up.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/5939607236043066770?pid=5939607236043066770&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP6514_0008_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>But other birds were busy with &#8220;business as usual&#8221;. Here some crows are takin&#8217; it to a hawk, who was <em>definitely<\/em> not where she was wanted.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/5939607164341805074?pid=5939607164341805074&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP6533_0006_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>The crows met up later to discuss the matter.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/5939607285608388530?pid=5939607285608388530&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP6562_0001_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s quiet out on the lake now with the seasons changing. Many summer residents have fled south, and the year-rounders are hunkering down for the coming winter. Still, though, there&#8217;s plenty going on as &#8220;business as usual&#8221; continues for many. At first I thought a bit of vegetation had gotten lodged on the trash can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}