{"id":32294,"date":"2022-07-09T01:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T05:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32294"},"modified":"2022-07-09T01:09:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T05:09:53","slug":"you-guys-are-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/07\/you-guys-are-late\/","title":{"rendered":"You guys are late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Over at the neighborhood pond the other evening, right as the beavers would be making their appearance (and were,) my attention was distracted by a pair of subjects quite close by, and so I switched focus over to them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WiderJuvieGreens.jpg\" alt=\"pair of juvenile green herons Butorides virescens newly fledged\" width=\"750\" height=\"603\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32295\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is a pair of juvenile green herons (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>,) and judging from their appearance and behavior, they&#8217;d recently left the nest &#8211; like, that day, I&#8217;m guessing. This was surprising to me, because I thought the species would have nested and fledged out weeks ago, but perhaps this is a second nest after an unsuccessful first? I&#8217;d already seen evidence this year of young ones sticking around the tree that hosted a nest in years past, but this was in an entirely different location, and I haven&#8217;t (yet) spotted this nest even though, given their predilection to remain locked to this one longneedle pine tree, it&#8217;s in there somewhere. Regardless, the video does a better job of illustration, despite my horrible videography skills.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/728330710?h=36004c2d5f&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"First day out?\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>[If it seems like I&#8217;m terrible at finding\/tracking, bear in mind that I&#8217;m still required to use the LCD on the back of the camera for video work, and this destroys my aiming instincts, made much worse by working at high magnification<strong>;<\/strong> I&#8217;m a little slicker with my eye to the viewfinder at least, and I might get better with more practice. While I have an external monitor that I could be using, this would likely make it even worse because it would be significantly misaligned from the camera and lens axis. Meanwhile the microphone, while on a separate arm <em>and<\/em> a vibration isolating mount, nonetheless picks up a little too much camera noise, especially from zooming and loosening the ballhead lock, and I&#8217;m not sure how much I can do about that, but I&#8217;m looking into it.]<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll close with one of the images that you hear being snapped during the video recording, a portrait that seems way out of proportion to all the framing adjustments I was making because of numerous intervening branches and the constant repositioning of the birds, not to mention the fading light. I&#8217;m good with it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ScruffyGreens.jpg\" alt=\"pair of juvenile green herons Butorides virescens posing quite well\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32298\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think, anyway. Over at the neighborhood pond the other evening, right as the beavers would be making their appearance (and were,) my attention was distracted by a pair of subjects quite close by, and so I switched focus over to them. This is a pair of juvenile green herons (Butorides virescens,) and judging from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,3809],"tags":[446,79,445,5592],"class_list":["post-32294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-video","tag-butorides-virescens","tag-fledgling","tag-green-heron","tag-juveniles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32294","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=32294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}