{"id":7802,"date":"2021-09-08T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:27:00","slug":"yesterday-was-horrible-but-not-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2021\/09\/08\/yesterday-was-horrible-but-not-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday was Horrible, but not bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The weather yesterday was typical for a south Texas summer day… about 100 degrees with super high humidity and it had rained an inch or so in the area where I planned to photograph. I started down the trail to my photo blind with a wagon (garden wagon) of heavy gear and hit heavy mud about half way. Oh well (I thought), I’ve come this far, I can make it. And, I did, but just barely short of a heat stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was so humid, I couldn’t dry off, so I sat there for three hours with muddy shoes and soaking wet in sweat. Luckily, I had plenty of water and the blind was in the shade. Since a friend had photographed three species of kingfishers and a gray hawk from that blind the day before, I was expecting a boatload of bird diversity. I could tough it out if the photography was going to be that good. Of course, a lot of those birds didn’t show, but it was a pretty good day. After I got home, had a bath, and looked at the day’s images, I came to the conclusion that almost any day spent photographing wild critters is pretty special. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a few of yesterday’s photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great Kiskadee eating insect.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Green Heron on perch.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Great Kiskadee hunting bugs.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Snowy Egret fishing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Red-eared Slider turtles sunning on floating log.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Green Kingfisher male with fish.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Green Kingfisher landing. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Green Kingfisher, male stretching.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That’s it for this week. Thanks for checking out the newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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