{"id":194,"date":"2023-01-09T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T19:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2023-01-09T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T19:23:45","slug":"a-sunday-walk-in-the-game-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/09\/a-sunday-walk-in-the-game-land\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunday walk in the game land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The morning was overcast but dry, and whereas the previous week I had no photos, this Sunday made up for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The first bird I came across (that is, one close enough to photograph) was a white-throated sparrow, one of several. The white throats are among the winter birds of central Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A white-throated sparrow.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Overnight the temperature went below freezing, so there were a number of different ice forms to photograph, including this one of thousands of icicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thousands of icicles.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

High overhead a trio of turkey vultures were circling, looking here and there. Below is one of them, turkey vultures being among the most effortless flyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A turkey vulture.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next comes one of those strange photographs, one that I find exceedingly pleasing. I call it an antlered branch creature. Awesome antlers! Note the eyes too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An antlered branch creature.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Toward the end of my walk I came across a yellow-bellied sapsucker. For whatever reason, I come across one or another of them in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A yellow-bellied sapsucker.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was definitely a good walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The morning was overcast but dry, and whereas the previous week I had no photos, this Sunday made up for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,15],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildlife","tag-icicles","tag-sparrow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}