{"id":851,"date":"2014-12-15T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2014-12-15T20:48:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T01:48:08","slug":"creature-feature-2014-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2014-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2014 #7"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how many places are like this, but one thing about winter in the Carolina’s (USA) is you can start out at 26°F needing hats, gloves, and coats in the morning and end up out on the lake in the afternoon with just shorts and a T-shirt. That was the case this weekend, and I took advantage of it to get out there for the first time in months (as usual, click on the pictures to get to a higher-res version).<\/p>\n

In the meantime, things have transitioned to a winter configuration.<\/p>\n

These Gulls are winter residents:
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\nI’m not sure what trick of the light or angles made this one look a bit like a stealth bomber:
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\nWe do know, of course, that sufficiently large flocks of birds do show up on air traffic control radar. Wonder how that will be affected with ADS-B<\/A>?<\/p>\n

The Kingfishers are around all year (have I mentioned how difficult it is to photograph these birds?):
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If you’re reading this blog, you probably recognize this guy, taking advantage of some late-season nuts:
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\nProbably the only thing trickier than flying through tree branches at speed is taking a picture of someone doing exactly that:
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These Mallards are also year-rounders, flying around under a sky that amazing shade of blue that this planet is so noted for and photographs never do justice:
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And, of course, the obligatory Great Blue Heron picture:
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I don’t know how many places are like this, but one thing about winter in the Carolina’s (USA) is you can start out at 26°F needing hats, gloves, and coats in the morning and end up out on the lake in the afternoon with just shorts and a T-shirt. That was the case this weekend, […]<\/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-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kayak","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","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=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}