{"id":37350,"date":"2024-08-14T06:19:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T10:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37350"},"modified":"2024-08-13T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T20:20:13","slug":"just-once-part-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/08\/just-once-part-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Just once, part 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/FartsyLoon.jpg\" alt=\"common loon Gavia immer cruising past at sunrise\" width=\"750\" height=\"531\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37351\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is one of the few images for this weekly topic that I uploaded, rather than using the images already uploaded from the previous appearance, because I was looking at the very faint pastel colors of the sunrise sky reflected in the water and thought, <em>We need more emphasis on those<\/em>. This is a common loon (<em>Gavia immer<\/em>,) taken less than a year ago during a trip to Beaufort, North Carolina (which is pronounced differently from the Beaufort in <em>South<\/em> Carolina, because.) This one very kindly swam out from its cover on the shoreline of the estuary and passed close by me, and I did my part in holding as still as possible while snapping off frames &#8211; this allowed it to <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/12\/many-birds-one-mammal-two-things\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">swim even closer<\/a> for more frames. Can I credit this to my experience at being unobtrusive, or simply that the loon wasn&#8217;t that concerned and might have done this for anybody? I couldn&#8217;t possibly say for sure, so I&#8217;ll go with my remarkable abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Now, some years back I&#8217;d snagged a <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/07\/a-last-lingering-look\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">red-throated loon<\/a>, but this was the first and so far only common loon, and I didn&#8217;t have the fortune to hear it calling, which is a great sound (unlike the loons you hear in singles bars and such.) I really have to work on getting more exposure to coastal and estuary kind of subjects&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the few images for this weekly topic that I uploaded, rather than using the images already uploaded from the previous appearance, because I was looking at the very faint pastel colors of the sunrise sky reflected in the water and thought, We need more emphasis on those. This is a common [&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":[7530,7534,7535,7523],"class_list":["post-37350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-beaufort","tag-common-loon","tag-gavia-immer","tag-nc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37350","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=37350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}