{"id":2800,"date":"2022-05-31T09:08:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2022-05-31T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:08:16","slug":"road-less-traveledcontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/05\/31\/road-less-traveledcontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Less Traveled\u2026Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/172652145\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the flooding on Red River continues it creates plenty of new areas for large shore birds like the Great Egret to spend the day hunting.<br \/>\nThese birds are a little smaller than the Herons\u2026being pure white in color and easily spotted.<br \/>\nDuring breeding season they have a noticeable patch of lime green coloration from the eyes to the bill\u2026later in the season this green will turn white once again.<br \/>\nWe humans don\u2019t appreciate the flooding but all the shore birds and waders certainly do and take advantage of their new found ponds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the flooding on Red River continues it creates plenty of new areas for large shore birds like the Great Egret to spend the day hunting. These birds are a little smaller than the Herons\u2026being pure white in color and easily spotted. During breeding season they have a noticeable patch of lime green coloration from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,140],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-birds","category-waterfowl-waterbirds","tag-great-egret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}