{"id":138,"date":"2009-10-01T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/10\/01\/091001_greenheron\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:22:53","slug":"091001_greenheron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/10\/01\/091001_greenheron\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted a bird of a type I hadn&#8217;t previously seen wading in the stream between the two ponds this morning. I took a couple dozen photos and shipped a few off to our resident wildlife expert, Burr Williams, who identified the bird as a green heron. He said they reside year-around in certain parts of our county, but he admitted that he&#8217;d never seen one with its crest raised, as shown in the second photo.<\/p>\n<p>Is it just me, or does this bird with its raised crest have a faint resemblance to a roadrunner? If you didn&#8217;t know better and just glanced at these two photos, you&#8217;d probably think they are pictures of two different species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-bottom: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/greenheron1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a green heron\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/greenheron2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a green heron\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted a bird of a type I hadn&#8217;t previously seen wading in the stream between the two ponds this morning. I took a couple dozen photos and shipped a few off to our resident wildlife expert, Burr Williams, who identified the bird as a green heron. He said they reside year-around in certain parts&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/10\/01\/091001_greenheron\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green Heron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-wildlife-birds","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8793,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/8793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}