{"id":32985,"date":"2022-10-24T10:10:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32985"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:10:57","slug":"one-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/10\/one-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"One, twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Almost<\/em> have time now to get back into the gout of photos (and therefore post subjects,) but first, I have to tackle a photo project courtesy of my brother &#8211; if it works out, it will be the weekly topic tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>first<\/em> first, we have a quick shot from another outing to Jordan Lake this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ByTheVeryTail.jpg\" alt=\"great blue heron Ardea herodias in twilight with fish on Jordan Lake\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32986\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>While watching the sunset perform as normal for this area (which means, not terribly well at all,) we saw this great blue heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) in the distance strike at a fish. We weren&#8217;t even sure it had snagged one, since it wasn&#8217;t displaying the normal gulping behavior afterward and we didn&#8217;t have the benefit of the long lens perspective seen here, especially since the fish was at times edge-on and at others reflecting the same background colors. But the reason for the absence of gulping was clear in the tighter crop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ByTheVeryTail-close.jpg\" alt=\"great blue heron Ardea herodias holding captured fish by the tail\" width=\"750\" height=\"624\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32987\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Fish have to go down head-first, so this was going to require an agile flip\/toss to get into the right orientation, and the heron was perhaps waiting until the fish stopped struggling for a moment. It didn&#8217;t take very long, and unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/04\/came-through-in-the-end\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous observations<\/a>, this one managed to get it on the first try and the fish disappeared down its gullet in moments.<\/p>\n<p>Which helped, because the air was still down there so the birds were performing poorly for our visit, and the one eagle that appeared and stole a fish from the vultures was too obscured by trees from our vantage to capture any images of. Still, I have more to show from this past week, so don&#8217;t give up and go to some idiot&#8217;s YouTube channel yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost have time now to get back into the gout of photos (and therefore post subjects,) but first, I have to tackle a photo project courtesy of my brother &#8211; if it works out, it will be the weekly topic tomorrow. But first first, we have a quick shot from another outing to Jordan Lake [&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":[451,69,3798],"class_list":["post-32985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-ardea-herodias","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-jordan-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32985","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=32985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}