{"id":2464,"date":"2014-06-10T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2014-06-10T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:57:02","slug":"loons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Loons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0A\u00a0<del>long time ago<\/del>\u00a0yesterday in a <del>galaxy<\/del>\u00a0pond <del>far, far<\/del>\u00a0not too far away&#8230;\u00a0<\/span>I discovered a pair of nesting loons.<\/p>\n<p>It is unusual to find a nest that can be observed (and photographed) easily from land and one needs really soft, even light to do justice to a black and white bird photographically. Yesterday afternoon, in\u00a0intermittent light rain, every thing came together.<\/p>\n<p>The photos are of two individuals. The one sitting on the nest was there the entire time (about 90 minutes) I observed him\/her. The other, which was close by most of the time, alternated between fishing and resting. The nearby mallard family was just a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>[scrollGallery id=271 autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A\u00a0long time ago\u00a0yesterday in a galaxy\u00a0pond far, far\u00a0not too far away&#8230;\u00a0I discovered a pair of nesting loons. It is unusual to find a nest that can be observed (and photographed) easily from land and one needs really soft, even light to do justice to a black and white bird photographically. Yesterday afternoon, in\u00a0intermittent light rain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,92],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-monadnock-region","tag-loons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}