{"id":189,"date":"2014-04-15T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T20:59:00","slug":"nobody-eludes-me-for-nine-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/nobody-eludes-me-for-nine-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Eludes Me for Nine Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the most skittish of the animals on the lake, this guy will flee in panic if a human comes outside, even on the far side of the lake. Up until now the only shots I have been able to get of him have been thru window glass from inside the house.<\/p>\n<p>But no more! I got him! I saw him coming and managed to sneak into hiding and wait until he stalked by right in front of me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron01.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[189]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-187\" alt=\"blue_heron01\" src=\"http:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron01-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron01.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is a Great Blue Heron <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Blue_Heron\" target=\"_blank\">(Wikipedia)<\/a>\u00a0and frequently hunts around the edge of our lake. I have been trying to get an up-close out of doors shot of this guy for like 9 years now. With an average life span of 15 years in the wild, it&#8217;s possible that this could be the very same guy who has been frustrating me all of this time.<\/p>\n<p>Redemption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron03.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[189]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-188\" alt=\"blue_heron03\" src=\"http:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron03-300x254.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron03-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron03-353x300.jpg 353w, https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/blue_heron03.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easily the most skittish of the animals on the lake, this guy will flee in panic if a human comes outside, even on the far side of the lake. Up until now the only shots I have been able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/nobody-eludes-me-for-nine-years\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,9,5],"tags":[15,24,13,26,23],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-lake","category-photography","category-wildlife","tag-birds","tag-lake","tag-nature","tag-photography","tag-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcallahan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}