{"id":4170,"date":"2017-04-17T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2017-04-17T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T21:00:01","slug":"march-at-laguna-seca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/17\/march-at-laguna-seca\/","title":{"rendered":"March at Laguna Seca"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jumping\u00a0from January into March, I found myself back at Laguna Seca Photo Ranch.\u00a0 These trips sandwiched many days of working on photo files and shooting magazine assignments.\u00a0 Winter just slipped by while I was housebound.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the following shots reflect a day of\u00a0wonderful\u00a0 photography, mostly\u00a0from the regular blinds.\u00a0 I\u00a0kept only one photo from the raptor blind shoot in the morning.\u00a0 About mid-afternoon, a batch of wild turkeys began coming and going from the pond at\u00a0my afternoon blind.\u00a0 The flock included several large gobblers who were\u00a0strutting and gobbling for about two hours.<\/p>\n

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Crested Caracara juvenile in flight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I really like the curled primary feathers on the landing bird.<\/p>\n

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Golden-fronted Woodpecker landing on prickly pear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Northern Cardinal, male, bathing, s. Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Orange-crowned Warbler bathing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Strutting turkey gobbler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Strutting wild turkey gobbler and reflection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wild turkey gobblers on the alert.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wild turkey gobbling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It takes some skill to work a box call and then grab the camera to capture the gobbler’s reply.\u00a0 In this case, I handed the call to another photographer and asked him to give it one squawk.\u00a0 I was ready.<\/p>\n

These turkeys\u00a0were a total surprise for me.\u00a0 It’s the first time I’ve seen gobblers at Laguna Seca Ranch, but hopefully not the last.<\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jumping\u00a0from January into March, I found myself back at Laguna Seca Photo Ranch.\u00a0 These trips sandwiched many days of working on photo files and shooting magazine assignments.\u00a0 Winter just slipped by while I was housebound. Anyway, the following shots reflect a day of\u00a0wonderful\u00a0 photography, mostly\u00a0from the regular blinds.\u00a0 I\u00a0kept only one photo from the raptor … Continue reading March at Laguna Seca<\/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-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","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=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}