{"id":17764,"date":"2019-10-04T13:53:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17764"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T22:21:45","slug":"cupido-comyntas-eastern-tailed-blue-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17764","title":{"rendered":"<em>Cupido comyntas<\/em> (Eastern Tailed-Blue)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17766\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191004_170231.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17766\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191004_170231-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Cupido comyntas (Eastern Tailed-Blue)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17766\" data-wp-pid=\"17766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191004_170231-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191004_170231-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191004_170231-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191004_170231-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191004_170231-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/img_20191004_170231.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Cupido comyntas<\/em> (Eastern Tailed-Blue)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went outside today and walked around a bit in the lot next to my office. The weather was fine and it was nice to be out in the sunshine. I startled a belted kingfisher (<em>Megaceryle alcyon<\/em>) as I walked towards a vernal drainage pond. It&#8217;s often completely dry by this time of year but it had more water in it than in previous years and it hasn&#8217;t all evaporated yet. Above it, I was able to get close enough to get a pretty good photograph of this eastern tailed-blue (<em>Cupido comyntas<\/em>). They are pretty common but easily missed, as they are fairly small and flit around near the ground. They&#8217;re worth looking out for, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went outside today and walked around a bit in the lot next to my office. The weather was fine and it was nice to be out in the sunshine. I startled a belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) as I walked towards a vernal drainage pond. It&#8217;s often completely dry by this time of year but &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=17764\">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":[110,96,139,2034,1274,73,1677,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764"}],"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=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17777,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions\/17777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}