{"id":20199,"date":"2021-02-06T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T18:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20199"},"modified":"2021-05-01T05:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T10:09:04","slug":"great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20199","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20201\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_20210206_181216.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20201\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_20210206_181216-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_20210206_181216-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_20210206_181216-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_20210206_181216-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_20210206_181216-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/img_20210206_181216.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We walked on the C&#038;O Canal again this afternoon, returning to Pennyfield Lock but walking southeast instead of northwest. We saw three herons including one in a tree over the canal and this one, wading in the water. It seems like a good time of year for them and it&#8217;s particularly nice to see them as close as this. The trees are all bare, of course, which makes things in the trees easier to see. It was cool out today but not cols, so a really nice day for a walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We walked on the C&#038;O Canal again this afternoon, returning to Pennyfield Lock but walking southeast instead of northwest. We saw three herons including one in a tree over the canal and this one, wading in the water. It seems like a good time of year for them and it&#8217;s particularly nice to see them &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=20199\">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":[837,429,48,61,298,63,62,2755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199"}],"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=20199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20202,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions\/20202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}