{"id":22959,"date":"2023-07-08T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T20:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22959"},"modified":"2023-08-04T07:06:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:06:36","slug":"green-heron-butorides-virescens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22959","title":{"rendered":"Green Heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22962\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230708_010733.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22962\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230708_010733-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Green Heron (&lt;em&gt;Butorides virescens&lt;\/em&gt;)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230708_010733-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230708_010733-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230708_010733-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230708_010733-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230708_010733.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to the C&#038;O Canal today, walking upstream from Riley&#8217;s Lock and the Seneca Creek Aqueduct. Past the far end of the turning basin we saw a family of wood ducks (<em>Aix sponsa<\/em>) but none of the males were in their fancy, breeding plumage. They are still pretty ducks and since we usually only see mallards (<em>Anas platyrhynchos<\/em>), we enjoyed watching them paddle around in the duck weed. We also saw a great blue heron (<em>Ardea herodias<\/em>) and I got quite a few nice photos of that.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back, I saw something that didn&#8217;t register immediately but I stopped and backed up to take a better look. It was this green heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>) on its nest in a willow hanging out over the water of the turning basin. I was able to get a pretty good show, in spite of the branches of the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the C&#038;O Canal today, walking upstream from Riley&#8217;s Lock and the Seneca Creek Aqueduct. Past the far end of the turning basin we saw a family of wood ducks (Aix sponsa) but none of the males were in their fancy, breeding plumage. They are still pretty ducks and since we usually only &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22959\">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":[61,3191,3192,3309,3193,62,3404,838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959"}],"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=22959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22963,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions\/22963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}