{"id":309,"date":"2009-08-22T20:56:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T00:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:46:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:46:58","slug":"nightheron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/22\/nightheron\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera Trap Catches a Young Night Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Checking the camera trap has become somewhat of a weekend tradition for me.\u00a0 I never know what to expect.\u00a0 Many times, I get pictures of nothing, likely due to a flying bird triggering the motion sensor or simply light reflecting off branches or the waves on the lake.\u00a0 Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised, as I was when the doe and fawn were captured on the trail.\u00a0 Most of the time, the subjects of these pictures tend to be raccoons or crows.<\/p>\n<p>When I retrieved the camera this morning, I was pleased to see the number &#8217;12&#8217; on the camera&#8217;s photo counter.\u00a0 In one grainy 3 AM shot, a raccoon could be seen in the distance.\u00a0 The usual suspect.\u00a0 But on another shot, a bird was standing directly in front of the camera, almost posing.\u00a0 After a few hours of research, I learned that I had a shot of a juvenile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enature.com\/fieldguides\/detail.asp?recnum=BD0117\">Black-crowned Night Heron<\/a>.\u00a0 I had never heard of a Night Heron.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/08192009-Black-Crowned-Night-heron-immature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-310\" title=\"08192009 Black Crowned Night-heron immature\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/08192009-Black-Crowned-Night-heron-immature-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile black-crowned night-heron\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juvenile black-crowned night-heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As with many birds, the juvenile plumage and overall shape are nothing like the adult form.\u00a0 Regardless, I consider this a big win for the camera trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The camera trap captured an interesting shot of a juvenile black-capped night heron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upnorth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4290,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}