{"id":23061,"date":"2023-08-02T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23061"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T13:01:44","slug":"green-heron-butorides-virescens-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23061","title":{"rendered":"Green Heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23063\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_20230802_011803.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23063\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_20230802_011803-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Green Heron (Butorides virescens)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_20230802_011803-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_20230802_011803-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_20230802_011803-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_20230802_011803-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_20230802_011803.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After our walk in the Green Swamp we drove to the Twin Ponds overlook. We affectionately call it  Alligator Pond because that&#8217;s what we generally go to see. The boardwalk style viewing platform is officially call the Carl Bazemore Bird Walk. There are also birds there, and today we saw this green heron (<em>Butorides virescens<\/em>) in the shallows. In years past the view has been obscured by rank growth between the viewing platform and the pond. Sometime since last year that has been cut down, making the viewing considerably better. We did see an alligator there today, but I think my best photo from the visit was this one of the heron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After our walk in the Green Swamp we drove to the Twin Ponds overlook. We affectionately call it Alligator Pond because that&#8217;s what we generally go to see. The boardwalk style viewing platform is officially call the Carl Bazemore Bird Walk. There are also birds there, and today we saw this green heron (Butorides virescens) &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23061\">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":[61,3191,3192,3193,62,156,838],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061"}],"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=23061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23065,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23061\/revisions\/23065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}