{"id":692,"date":"2011-08-23T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-08-23T10:30:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T14:30:18","slug":"meadowhawks-and-spreadwings-in-the-beaver-swamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Meadowhawks and Spreadwings in the Beaver Swamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday afternoon, I headed down to the beaver swamp behind the house just to see what was up&#8230; I&#8217;d been inside working\u00a0 for much of the day and could not resist the beautiful weather anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The usual suspects were all to be found&#8230; darners which never seem to land (and thus I have no photos of), meadowhawks and spreadwings.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some time (about a half an hour according to the EXIF data) watching and photographing a single meadowhawk. I first noticed it perched in good light and with a good background. I maneuvered to get so that it was facing me and sat down. It was not too wet!<\/p>\n<p>This fellow was clearly hunting. He kept making brief forays from his perch and kept\u00a0 returning to the perch in the same orientation. I made a number of portraits as I waited hoping to get the photograph that never came&#8230; &#8220;meadowhawk with prey&#8221; was to be the title!<\/p>\n<p>Actually this fellow was quite a good hunter. It was just that the prey were very small, very light tan insects. They (the prey) were mostly gone and not very visible by the time my &#8220;friend&#8221; got pack to his perch. Heavy sigh!<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=85]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday afternoon, I headed down to the beaver swamp behind the house just to see what was up&#8230; I&#8217;d been inside working\u00a0 for much of the day and could not resist the beautiful weather anymore. The usual suspects were all to be found&#8230; darners which never seem to land (and thus I have no [&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":[5,62],"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odontates","category-the-new-yard-environs","tag-damselflies","tag-dragonflies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}