{"id":4901,"date":"2013-03-29T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2013-03-29T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:35:08","slug":"great-blue-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/great-blue-heron\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of my daughters is getting glasses. \u00a0So twice in the past 2 weeks we&#8217;ve had the chance to swing by the dr. office which is situated next to a pond along a busy street. \u00a0As we drove in the first time we noticed a Great Blue Heron flying over the parking lot and land next to the pond. \u00a0When we investigated more we discovered not one, but 2 of these beautiful birds at the pond. \u00a0We watched them for a few minutes, snapped a couple pictures and left. \u00a0When we went back yesterday to pick up the glasses I took along my longer lens just in case they were still there. \u00a0Joyfully they were&#8230; only this time there were three! \u00a0It was freezing cold and there was another photographer taking photos so we only peeked about 2 minutes. \u00a0I had the chance to photograph one flyover of the pond and one swing around the parking lot before we were too numb to stay any longer on this cold, dreary, windy day. \u00a0When I got home I was thrilled to have captured this shot &#8211; just love the angle and position of the wings. \u00a0What a beautiful bird.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4902\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6446T.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6446T.jpg 900w, http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_6446T-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One of my daughters is getting glasses. \u00a0So twice in the past 2 weeks we&#8217;ve had the chance to swing by the dr. office which is situated next to a pond along a busy street. \u00a0As we drove in the first time we noticed a Great Blue Heron flying over the parking lot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,107,448,371],"tags":[22,620,619,618,621,1215,474],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-nature","category-personal","category-photo-of-the-day","category-photo-share","tag-bird","tag-flight","tag-flying","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-heron","tag-nature","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catinaanderson.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}