{"id":273,"date":"2010-05-10T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/05\/10\/100510_turkeyandflower\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T14:15:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:15:58","slug":"100510_turkeyandflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/05\/10\/100510_turkeyandflower\/","title":{"rendered":"More Nature Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving north on &#8220;A&#8221; Street this morning, returning to the neighborhood after a quick run to the bank, and caught a flash of movement across the road. I pulled over, grabbed the little Sony point-and-shoot that I keep in the car for just such occasions, and got this:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc; margin-bottom: 1em;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/turkey2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a wild turkey\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/turkey1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a wild turkey\"><\/div>\n<p>Yeah, I know; it looks like the Loch Ness monster but it&#8217;s actually a wild turkey. I&#8217;ve never seen one around Midland. I apologize for the lack of detail in the photos but this bird was quite skittish and my camera was maxed out. Anyone else ever seen a wild turkey this close to the Midland city limits?<\/p>\n<p>Another cool thing. When I got out of the car to take the second photo, I glanced down and spotted this wildflower:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/unknownflower.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of a wildflower\" vspace=\"3\"><\/div>\n<p>It has a vague resemblance to a bluebonnet, but the color is amazing. I was as impressed with the flower as I was with the bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving north on &#8220;A&#8221; Street this morning, returning to the neighborhood after a quick run to the bank, and caught a flash of movement across the road. I pulled over, grabbed the little Sony point-and-shoot that I keep in the car for just such occasions, and got this: Yeah, I know; it looks&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/05\/10\/100510_turkeyandflower\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Nature Photography<\/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":[7,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midland-odessa","category-nature","category-photography","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\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8944,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/8944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}