{"id":37629,"date":"2024-09-25T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=37629"},"modified":"2024-09-21T22:21:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T02:21:53","slug":"just-once-part-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2024\/09\/just-once-part-39\/","title":{"rendered":"Just once, part 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/1stSapsucker.jpg\" alt=\"male yellow-bellied sapsucker Sphyrapicus varius on tree\" width=\"750\" height=\"953\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33841\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This week&#8217;s only-seen-here-once-before image is from 19 months ago, February last year, and I couldn&#8217;t tell you <em>why<\/em> I&#8217;d never photographed a yellow-bellied sapsucker (<em>Sphyrapicus varius<\/em>) before, or since, but here we are. I would have liked to have gotten closer, or a clearer view at least, but this guy disappeared before I could do much more, perhaps already aware that it had blown its cover. So yeah, it&#8217;s on the list of species to do a better job of, but I can even do this as a weekly topic because there are enough critters that evade my attention &#8211; I think I&#8217;ve eliminated just one potential appearance here because I snagged more frames of a particular species that was on my list of singular appearances when I started this topic. Let&#8217;s see if I can knock out any more before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I could go for several <del datetime=\"2024-09-22T02:10:59+00:00\">years<\/del> decades with species that I&#8217;ve <em>never<\/em> photographed, but those would be boring posts, wouldn&#8217;t they? At least we have a pic for these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s only-seen-here-once-before image is from 19 months ago, February last year, and I couldn&#8217;t tell you why I&#8217;d never photographed a yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) before, or since, but here we are. I would have liked to have gotten closer, or a clearer view at least, but this guy disappeared before I could do [&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":[7108,7107],"class_list":["post-37629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-sphyrapicus-varius","tag-yellow-bellied-sapsucker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37629","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=37629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}