{"id":901,"date":"2015-05-25T14:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/?p=901"},"modified":"2015-05-25T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T19:05:28","slug":"creature-feature-2015-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2015-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Creature Feature 2015 #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just <A HREF=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/creature-feature-2015-3\/\">a couple of weeks ago<\/A> I noted the little goslings floating around with their parents on the lake, little tiny things. My, how fast they grow (as usual, click on the picture to get to a higher-resolution version):<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/6152879772137208642?pid=6152879772137208642&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP2542_0001_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>The Osprey have been busy too, with at least one in the nest:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/6152878337071180242?pid=6152878337071180242&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP2410_0025_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nI spotted this one as he pulled breakfast out of the lake, perhaps to feed a family:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/6152878485610740434?pid=6152878485610740434&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP2450_0024_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>Obligatory Great Blue Heron picture&#8230; I hadn&#8217;t seen quite as many around the lake as usual, but maybe they, like everyone else this time of year, are busy.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/6152879151899077202?pid=6152879151899077202&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP2491_0017_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think ornithologists would describe this <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Blue_Jay\/id\"><em>Cyanocitta cristata<\/em><\/A> as a shore bird, but that&#8217;s where I saw this one:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/6152878993418510642?pid=6152878993418510642&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP2499_0014_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nThere was evidently something there of interest:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/6152879383090443618?pid=6152879383090443618&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP2509_0009_tn.jpg\"><\/A><br \/>\nand worth carrying off:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/6152879352940696034?pid=6152879352940696034&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP2511_0008_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n<p>One more of those little places on the lake I like to hang out:<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/111937200226914845828\/albums\/5513116066249600065\/6152878831832462482?pid=6152878831832462482&amp;oid=111937200226914845828\"><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/media\/IMGP2474_0020_tn.jpg\"><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of weeks ago I noted the little goslings floating around with their parents on the lake, little tiny things. My, how fast they grow (as usual, click on the picture to get to a higher-resolution version): The Osprey have been busy too, with at least one in the nest: I spotted this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-901","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\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildcorvid.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}