{"id":249,"date":"2009-06-23T16:36:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-06-23T16:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:36:15","slug":"the-blue-herring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Herring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story behind these photographs&#8230;First of all we live in a residential neighborhood, so when we saw this bird we were in a bit of shock. We back onto a neighbor who last year\u00a0installed this beautiful pond. We were playing cards with some friends on our back deck when this Blue Herring\u00a0 landed on their property&#8230;I quickly ran to get my camera and captured it while it snatched up one of their large jumbo fish&#8230;.the wing span when it flew away was magnificent. These were taken at about 8:30pm at night. They are not my best work&#8230; but I thought I would share.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253\" title=\"bird2\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bird2.jpg\" alt=\"bird2\" width=\"756\" height=\"489\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-252\" title=\"bird3\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bird3.jpg\" alt=\"bird3\" width=\"756\" height=\"489\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-251\" title=\"bird4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bird4.jpg\" alt=\"bird4\" width=\"756\" height=\"489\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-250\" title=\"bird1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/bird1.jpg\" alt=\"bird1\" width=\"756\" height=\"489\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/?p=249\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 305393;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story behind these photographs&#8230;First of all we live in a residential neighborhood, so when we saw this bird we were in a bit of shock. We back onto a neighbor who last year\u00a0installed this beautiful pond. We were playing cards with some friends on our back deck when this Blue Herring\u00a0 landed on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 305393;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.vineimages.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}