{"id":26693,"date":"2020-08-03T23:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=26693"},"modified":"2020-08-03T23:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T03:55:37","slug":"two-quick-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/08\/two-quick-greens\/","title":{"rendered":"Two quick greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 14 minutes to tomorrow, and I haven&#8217;t posted anything for a few days, so a couple of quick ones to sneak in under the wire. Oldest first.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/HeyImHidinHere.jpg\" alt=\"green heron Butorides virescens being shy at dusk\" width=\"750\" height=\"574\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26694\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>On the same say that we were <a href=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/07\/sometimes-it-works\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stalking the juvenile yellow-crowned night heron<\/a>, I spotted a green heron (the ostensible target of the evening, before I found the other,) and snagged only a quick peek through the branches. But I got the eye at least.<\/p>\n<p>And the other night, while I was talking to a friend on the phone, I found this green treefrog (<em>Hyla cinerea<\/em>) and did a quick portrait in a dynamic pose, with the streetlight creating a faint halo. This was intentional, and to that end I shot wide open at f4, but the focus was a wee bit off. I am ashamed, but it&#8217;s barely noticeable at blog resolution, so if I stick to only showing things off here, I&#8217;m good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BokehHalo.jpg\" alt=\"green treefrog Hyla cinerea with halo\" width=\"750\" height=\"556\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26695\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>But hey, deadline met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 14 minutes to tomorrow, and I haven&#8217;t posted anything for a few days, so a couple of quick ones to sneak in under the wire. Oldest first. On the same say that we were stalking the juvenile yellow-crowned night heron, I spotted a green heron (the ostensible target of the evening, before I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[446,445,2505,2506],"class_list":["post-26693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-butorides-virescens","tag-green-heron","tag-green-treefrog","tag-hyla-cinerea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}