{"id":17127,"date":"2019-06-06T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17127"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:40:48","slug":"plathemis-lydia-common-whitetail-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17127","title":{"rendered":"<em>Plathemis lydia<\/em> (Common Whitetail), Female"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17129\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190606_166166.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17129\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190606_166166-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;em&gt;Plathemis lydia&lt;\/em&gt; (Common Whitetail), Female\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17129\" data-wp-pid=\"17129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190606_166166-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190606_166166-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190606_166166-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190606_166166-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190606_166166-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/img_20190606_166166.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Plathemis lydia<\/em> (Common Whitetail), Female<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a warm but beautiful day out today and I have a few minutes in the mid-afternoon so I thought I&#8217;d take a walk to the empty lot next to my building. The drainage pond that I generally go to was quite large, overflowing the banks it&#8217;s had most times I&#8217;ve been, but above it, the ground was fairly dry and I had no problems getting around. I saw a green heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>) and there were quite a few redwing blackbirds (<em>Agelaius phoeniceus<\/em>) about. There were also a lot of dragonflies flitting around over the water. I got down on the ground by the edge of the pond and watched them, taking a few pictures now and then. I couldn&#8217;t really get as close as I would have liked but I did enjoy watching this female whitetail (<em>Plathemis lydia<\/em>) laying eggs in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a warm but beautiful day out today and I have a few minutes in the mid-afternoon so I thought I&#8217;d take a walk to the empty lot next to my building. The drainage pond that I generally go to was quite large, overflowing the banks it&#8217;s had most times I&#8217;ve been, but above &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[808,1765,187,73,1677,121,1766,807,1764,1763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17130,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17127\/revisions\/17130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}