{"id":25321,"date":"2026-08-10T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25321"},"modified":"2026-11-08T17:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T22:19:24","slug":"turkey-vulture-cathartes-aura-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25321","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Vulture (<em>Cathartes aura<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25323\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260810_032284.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25323\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260810_032284-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260810_032284-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260810_032284-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260810_032284-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260810_032284-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_20260810_032284.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Turkey Vulture (<em>Cathartes aura<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Along with our good friend, Yvette, we went to the Jug Bay Natural Area in Patuxent River Park today. When I put Jug Bay into my GPS to get there, I didn&#8217;t pay close attention and we were taken to the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, which was closed. Although it was less than a mile, as the crow flies to where we wanted to go, it was over 13 miles by road. There is a viewing platform and from that I was able to get a few nice photos of this turkey vulture (<em>Cathartes aura<\/em>) on a large stump. We heard quite a few other birds and also enjoyed a walk along the shore, across a marsh, and through the woods. It was quite warm, so we really enjoyed the air conditioning in the visitor center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with our good friend, Yvette, we went to the Jug Bay Natural Area in Patuxent River Park today. When I put Jug Bay into my GPS to get there, I didn&#8217;t pay close attention and we were taken to the Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, which was closed. Although it was less than a mile, &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=25321\">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":[61,275,276,1615,1616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321"}],"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=25321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25325,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25321\/revisions\/25325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}