{"id":265,"date":"2009-03-17T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2009-03-17T21:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T02:36:00","slug":"in-the-marshes-and-ponds-%e2%80%93-little-blue-herons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"In the Marshes and Ponds \u2013 Little Blue Herons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3787-719691.jpg\" ><img style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3787-719658.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>While sometimes they\u2019re hard to find at all, Little Blue Herons seemed to be almost everywhere on this trip. One perched in a tangle of branches on the edge of a canal \u2013 its head and neck a smoky rose-blue, its back and wings slate blue. We also saw several immature Little Blue Herons \u2013 all white, with a long, gray, dark-tipped bill and greenish legs.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3806_2-729626.jpg\" ><img style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/DSC_3806_2-729383.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sometimes they\u2019re hard to find at all, Little Blue Herons seemed to be almost everywhere on this trip. One perched in a tangle of branches on the edge of a canal \u2013 its head and neck a smoky rose-blue, its back and wings slate blue. We also saw several immature Little Blue Herons \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}