{"id":26765,"date":"2020-03-28T13:32:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=26765"},"modified":"2020-04-02T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:43:04","slug":"eastern-meadowlark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=26765","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Meadowlark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/200327-Eastern-Meadowlark-7D2-6937b-w7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/200327-Eastern-Meadowlark-7D2-6937b-w7.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/200327-Eastern-Meadowlark-7D2-6937b-w7-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/200327-Eastern-Meadowlark-7D2-6937b-w7-343x300.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>Eastern Meadowlark<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My goal was to see prairie chickens. But it was cool and foggy and there were no prairie chickens to be seen at the Kellerton Iowa Bird Conservation Area. So I turned my attention elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There were several meadowlarks in the area. One in particular liked two fence posts not far from the road. So I parked on the side of the road not far from one of those fence posts. He finally landed on the post and started to sing. I took a few photos, drove a little closer and took more photos. The closer yet and more photos. Eventually I got as close as I could get and took another series of photos. This is of them.<\/p>\n<p>A car makes a pretty good photo blind for getting much closer to wild birds than you could ever get on foot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goal was to see prairie chickens. But it was cool and foggy and there were no prairie chickens to be seen at the Kellerton Iowa Bird Conservation Area. So I turned my attention elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs","category-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26770,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26765\/revisions\/26770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}