{"id":13921,"date":"2014-03-24T09:04:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=13921"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:04:46","slug":"pterodactyls-in-flight-great-blue-herons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=13921","title":{"rendered":"Pterodactyls in Flight (Great Blue Herons)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13923\" title=\"post gbhr flight 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-001-480-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Pterodaytls in Flight &#8212; Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Great Blue Herons in flight resemble nothing so much as the reincarnation of ancient pterodactyls.\u00c2\u00a0 They are magnificent creatures that cruise through the sky with lumbering grace.\u00c2\u00a0 Their raucous squawks and &#8220;kronks&#8221; add depth and breadth to the simulation of prehistoric mystery.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Turtle Journal offers the following montage of Great Blue Herons in flight for your pure enjoyment.\u00c2\u00a0 Each image can be enlarged by clicking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-003-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13925\" title=\"post gbhr flight 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-003-480-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-004-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13927\" title=\"post gbhr flight 004 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-004-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-004-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-004-480-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-005-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13929\" title=\"post gbhr flight 005 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-005-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-005-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-005-480-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-009-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13931\" title=\"post gbhr flight 009 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-009-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-009-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-009-480-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-009-480-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-011-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13933\" title=\"post gbhr flight 011 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-011-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-011-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/post-gbhr-flight-011-480-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Great Blue Herons at SouthCoast\u00c2\u00a0 Rookery in Marion, Massachusetts<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pterodaytls in Flight &#8212; Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) Great Blue Herons in flight resemble nothing so much as the reincarnation of ancient pterodactyls.\u00c2\u00a0 They are magnificent creatures that cruise through the sky with lumbering grace.\u00c2\u00a0 Their raucous squawks and &#8220;kronks&#8221; add depth and breadth to the simulation of prehistoric mystery.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle Journal offers the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[654,402],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13921"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13952,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions\/13952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}