{"id":13874,"date":"2024-12-22T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2024-12-22T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:58:01","slug":"december-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/?p=13874","title":{"rendered":"December 20, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At close of day in the Bear Creek Greenbelt an American Dipper kept plunging into the creek for a meal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13869\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13869\" class=\"wp-image-13869 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Dipper<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13873\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.alt_.12.20.24.gb_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13873\" class=\"wp-image-13873 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.alt_.12.20.24.gb_-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.alt_.12.20.24.gb_-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.alt_.12.20.24.gb_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.alt_.12.20.24.gb_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.alt_.12.20.24.gb_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.alt_.12.20.24.gb_-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/amdi.with_.water_.watermark.alt_.12.20.24.gb_-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Dipper<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the trees:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13871\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/papa.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13871\" class=\"wp-image-13871 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/papa.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" 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href=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mama.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13870\" class=\"wp-image-13870 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mama.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mama.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mama.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mama.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mama.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mama.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/mama.ghow_.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Great Horned Owl<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And this bird&#8211;two of them&#8211;skulked at the creek&#8217;s edge, obscured by reeds.\u00a0 After a few minutes, one of them relented and posed for me on a fallen log.\u00a0 Then they began feeding on the ground.\u00a0 They would tap one foot rapidly, then the other, trying to uncover insects beneath the leaves.\u00a0 Then they&#8217;d run, and tap dance again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13872\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/hermit.thrush.watermark.12.20.24.gb_-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13872\" class=\"wp-image-13872 size-large\" 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Meanwhile, in the trees: And this bird&#8211;two of them&#8211;skulked at the creek&#8217;s edge, obscured by reeds.\u00a0 After a few minutes, one of them relented and posed for me on a fallen log.\u00a0 Then they began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13875,"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions\/13875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturallyjax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}