{"id":24434,"date":"2025-04-06T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T18:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24434"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:12:43","slug":"marsh-grass-blackwater-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24434","title":{"rendered":"Marsh Grass, Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24435\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250406_023229.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24435\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250406_023229-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Marsh Grass\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250406_023229-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250406_023229-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250406_023229-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250406_023229-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_20250406_023229.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marsh Grass<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We returned home from Delaware today. We decided that we&#8217;d stop at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, going first to the visitor center and then went to the short boardwalk at the end of Observation Access Road. The Marsh Edge Trail was closed because there is an active bald eagle&#8217;s nest near that trail. We could see the nest from the boardwalk but didn&#8217;t see any activity. We did see ospreys on their nests in a few different places and another eagle nest at the western end of the drive. This photo was taken from the boardwalk and I like the patterns of grass and water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We returned home from Delaware today. We decided that we&#8217;d stop at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, going first to the visitor center and then went to the short boardwalk at the end of Observation Access Road. The Marsh Edge Trail was closed because there is an active bald eagle&#8217;s nest near that trail. We could &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24434\">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":[3],"tags":[3706,3707,3705,593],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434"}],"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=24434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24454,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434\/revisions\/24454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}