{"id":3035,"date":"2014-09-17T20:44:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3035"},"modified":"2014-09-17T20:44:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T00:44:12","slug":"foggy-morning-great-blue-heron-lift-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3035","title":{"rendered":"Foggy Morning Great Blue Heron Lift Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to post this series of photos for a while. I took these back on\u00a0July 18th while kayaking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebashakill.org\">Bashakill Wildlife Management Area<\/a>. It was an extremely\u00a0foggy morning, so much so that until late in the morning, the fog prevented any good photos. This Great Blue Heron was shot just as the fog had lifted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3036\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3876.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3036\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3876-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"I allowed the kayak to just drift in the direction of this perched Great Blue Heron. Bashakill WMA, 7\/18\/14.\" width=\"584\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3876-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3876-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3876-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I allowed the kayak to just drift in the direction of this perched Great Blue Heron&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3037\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3881.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3037\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3881-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"x\" width=\"584\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3881-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3881-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3881-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I love this shot &#8211; you can barely see the bird as it compresses before lift off. I actually had one frame where the bird was not visible at all.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3038\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3882.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3038\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3882-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"x\" width=\"584\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3882-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3882-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3882-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The heron seems to simultaneously leap and flap its wings to take off&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3039\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3883.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3039\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3883-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"x\" width=\"584\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3883-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3883-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3883-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air born! Miraculously the bird took off straight to my left instead of away from me. I love the full extension in this photo.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3040\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3040\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3884-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"x\" width=\"584\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3884-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3884-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3884-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m not sure if this is due to my crop or if the heron actually got a little closer as it passed by&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3041\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3885.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3041\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3885-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"x\" width=\"584\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3885-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3885-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/IMG_3885-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;And one more shot\u00a0as the bird passed to my left.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to post this series of photos for a while. I took these back on\u00a0July 18th while kayaking at the Bashakill Wildlife Management Area. It was an extremely\u00a0foggy morning, so much so that until late in the morning, the fog prevented any good photos. This Great Blue Heron was shot just as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=3035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Foggy Morning Great Blue Heron Lift Off&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,9,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-sullivancounty","category-bashakill","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-MX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3035\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}