{"id":35947,"date":"2024-02-19T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35947"},"modified":"2024-02-19T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T18:59:19","slug":"living-in-the-past-xxix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/02\/living-in-the-past-xxix\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in the past XXIX"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things are still slow on the nature photography end, and even I<\/em> won’t post about hashing out designs for the 3D printer (there – we found a limit to what I’ll post;<\/strong> happy now?) So I’m bringing up one of the entries I had in reserve, if needed, to bring the count up last year and make a meaningless anniversary<\/a>, while we wait for more current items of interest.<\/p>\n

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2016 was the year that a family of red-shouldered hawks were raised in a nest that, though a little distant, was in plain view off of the back of the property. Regrettably, I didn’t have a quality long lens nor the ability to do video at that time, both remedied now, though the hawks have not deigned to return. But as I was out there photographing the young squabbling in the nest, one of the parents (I tend to think it was the dad) returned with a medium-sized eastern rat snake, though he alighted on a branch a short distance from the nest to ensure that the snake was dead before it was introduced to the sprogs. I had to pick up the tripod and move it forward about a meter, turning the camera about 90°, but it gave me a nice view that was much closer than the nest itself.<\/p>\n

Man, video capability would have been great to have at that point! I did create an animated gif (pronounced “JAW-fee-joe-fur<\/em>“) from a long sequence of stills of the nestlings having a tug-of-war<\/a> with a smaller snake, but this experience, among others, prompted me to obtain a video-capable camera body (because a camcorder wouldn’t have the reach of a 500 or 600mm lens) as well as a halfway-decent shotgun microphone. Those came in handy with the beavers<\/a> and the woodpeckers<\/a> so, improvements are being made. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things are still slow on the nature photography end, and even I won’t post about hashing out designs for the 3D printer (there – we found a limit to what I’ll post; happy now?) So I’m bringing up one of the entries I had in reserve, if needed, to bring the count up last year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[288,494,5596,5595,493],"class_list":["post-35947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-black-rat-snake","tag-buteo-lineatus","tag-eastern-rat-snake","tag-pantherophis-alleghaniensis","tag-red-shouldered-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947","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=35947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}