{"id":4156,"date":"2017-04-17T14:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2017-04-17T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T19:41:13","slug":"catching-up-on-winter-and-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/17\/catching-up-on-winter-and-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up on Winter and Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been so long since I put together a newsletter, I almost forgot my password.\u00a0 But, here we are, so lets review.\u00a0 Way back in January, I spent a day at Laguna Seca Photo Ranch and got some nice shots early.\u00a0 We were hoping\u00a0the white-tailed hawks would make an appearance; that didn’t happen.\u00a0 A plethora of caracaras came to the bait, so we had fun while that lasted.<\/p>\n

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Black Vulture landing as crested caracara flies away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crested Caracara coming in for a landing at photo blind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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juvenile Crested Caracara grooming adult.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Caracara display.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crested Caracara displaying.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Juvenile crested caracara landing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This young bird is coming back for more even though it obviously got a crop full on an earlier visit.<\/p>\n

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Crested Caracara turning in flight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crested Caracara and black vultures on deer carcass, s. Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Eastern Meadowlark in grassland, s. Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Heavily cropped image of adult white-tailed hawk that never came close to the photo blind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most of these flight shots were done with the Canon 100-400 lens while the ground shots were made with the 500 mm lens.<\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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It’s been so long since I put together a newsletter, I almost forgot my password.\u00a0 But, here we are, so lets review.\u00a0 Way back in January, I spent a day at Laguna Seca Photo Ranch and got some nice shots early.\u00a0 We were hoping\u00a0the white-tailed hawks would make an appearance; that didn’t happen.\u00a0 A plethora … Continue reading Catching Up on Winter and Spring<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}