{"id":22377,"date":"2022-12-17T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22377"},"modified":"2022-12-31T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T16:50:58","slug":"great-blue-heron-ardea-herodias-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22377","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22379\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221217_005723.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22379\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221217_005723-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221217_005723-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221217_005723-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221217_005723-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221217_005723-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_20221217_005723.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Blue Heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to Great Falls today and walked downstream on the towpath. We went out to the overlook and enjoyed the roaring water, which was considerably higher than the last time we were at the river. I got a few photos of two immature bald eagles flying overhead. Then further along the towpath we got a really nice view of this great blue heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) in the canal. There was, apparently, another down at wide-water, but we decided we had walked far enough and headed back. This one was catching what appear to be crayfish or some other sort of fresh water crustacean. He (or she) didn&#8217;t seem to mind the attention from the shore and let a lot of folks get photos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Great Falls today and walked downstream on the towpath. We went out to the overlook and enjoyed the roaring water, which was considerably higher than the last time we were at the river. I got a few photos of two immature bald eagles flying overhead. Then further along the towpath we got &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22377\">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":[837,429,61,3186,63,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22377"}],"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=22377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22380,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22377\/revisions\/22380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}