{"id":32213,"date":"2023-05-19T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32213"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T17:17:21","slug":"sora-at-lake-lashane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32213","title":{"rendered":"Sora at Lake LaShane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/230513-Sora-LaShane-SL3-7384b-w8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/230513-Sora-LaShane-SL3-7384b-w8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/230513-Sora-LaShane-SL3-7384b-w8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/230513-Sora-LaShane-SL3-7384b-w8-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/230513-Sora-LaShane-SL3-7384b-w8-768x609.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/230513-Sora-LaShane-SL3-7384b-w8-379x300.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sora, Lake LaShane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was leaving Lake LaShane when a white flicker caught my eye. I stopped the car for a better look. Not far from a cluster of reeds, a small bird was wading in a shallow part of the lake. Its tail feathers were flicking up and down. It was the white underside that caught my eye. <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I grabbed a camera and started taking pictures. This was a new bird to me. When I got home I looked it up at All About Birds (The Cornell Lab of Ornithology web site). It is a common bird but not common to see since it is usually hidden in the reeds. <br \/><br \/>The Sora is humorous to watch. All About Birds says, &#8220;The Sora walks slowly through shallow wetlands a bit like a chicken that has had too much coffee, nervously flicking its tail and exposing the white feathers below.&#8221;\u00a0 You can learn more about the Sora at the second link below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/news\/\">All About Birds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Sora\/\">Sora at All About Birds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was leaving Lake LaShane when a white flicker caught my eye. I stopped the car for a better look. Not far from a cluster of reeds, a small bird was wading in a shallow part of the lake. Its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-32213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213","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=32213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32218,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32213\/revisions\/32218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}