{"id":635,"date":"2013-12-01T19:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2013-12-02T05:34:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T10:34:58","slug":"creature-feature-2013-12-heron-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2013-12-heron-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2013 #12 – Heron Special"},"content":{"rendered":"

A chilly day on the edge of winter, but it’s still neat to be out on The Lake. I know I titled this “Heron Special”, but the Great Blue Herons weren’t the only birds out there. This Kingfisher was just hangin’ out, fluffed a bit against the cool temperatures:
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\n(as usual, click on the picture for a higher-resolution version)
\nSo I’m paddling along and I spooked a Heron that I didn’t see. I try not to do that, but I just didn’t see this one. She took off and headed up the lake, but then decided to turn back. Maybe she recognized me and realized I wasn’t a threat, and wanted to get back to that spot.
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\nNice wingspan, complete with winglets<\/A>:
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\nShe treated me to an airshow-like low pass right in front of me, camera snapping away.
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\nand circled around into the trees. You can just about see her in the trees here:
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\nFor a large bird, they can get around in the trees pretty good. Here’s one just jumping off the top of a tree and transitioning into a flight configuration:
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\nThe operation looked very awkward, but he very quickly was in full flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A chilly day on the edge of winter, but it’s still neat to be out on The Lake. I know I titled this “Heron Special”, but the Great Blue Herons weren’t the only birds out there. This Kingfisher was just hangin’ out, fluffed a bit against the cool temperatures: (as usual, click on the picture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}