{"id":268,"date":"2023-06-11T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2023-06-11T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:40:33","slug":"a-green-heron-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/2023\/06\/11\/a-green-heron-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"A green heron in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While I continue to fall further and further behind everything that I want to do, I thought a simple yet visually pleasing post would do well: a green heron in flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Typically, I see any green heron standing or walking about the main pond over at the Toftrees game land. If a green heron is flying, it generally stays low and  close to the water and so making photography a true challenge. One day was different, and I saw a green heron approaching the pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8208-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=640%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8208-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=1024%2C742&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8208-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8208-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=768%2C557&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8208-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A green heron.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8209-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=640%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8209-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=1024%2C742&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8209-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8209-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=768%2C557&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8209-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8210-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=640%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8210-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=1024%2C742&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8210-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8210-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?resize=768%2C557&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/b8210-green-heron-fly-10may.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>My favorite green heron flight photo.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A green heron is a remarkably colorful bird, even if those colors don&#8217;t include green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I continue to fall further and further behind everything that I want to do, I thought a simple yet visually pleasing post would do well: a green heron in flight.<\/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":[59,5,14],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildlife","tag-green-heron","tag-photography","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookoutnow.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}