{"id":38316,"date":"2026-02-20T00:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=38316"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:23:41","slug":"just-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=38316","title":{"rendered":"Just Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I went back along the Mill Race today to check on the Great Blue Heron nest building. The trees, creeks, and odd things all had herons. Maybe 20 during the 3 hours. Progress on the new nests was null – nothing. I did check the old ones again too – empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one heron on this pipe which is 6 ft off the water was doing something I couldn’t understand – maybe trying to catch some heron’s eye?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One crow determined to be photo’d … not sure I got the best side though<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The real treat though happened by accident. I was watching this flock of birds dance in the air and started to take picture when a Cooper’s Hawk showed up looking for lunch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All this from walking outside my front door and down the sidewalk to the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went back along the Mill Race today to check on the Great Blue Heron nest building. The trees, creeks, and odd things all had herons. Maybe 20 during the 3 hours. Progress on the new nests was null – nothing. I did check the old ones again too – empty. This one heron on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[24,81,83,84],"class_list":["post-38316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-town","category-photo-chasing","tag-alton-baker-park","tag-birds","tag-coopers-hawk","tag-herons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/goatbells.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/P2191442.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38322,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38316\/revisions\/38322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}