{"id":3150,"date":"2009-10-13T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T21:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2010-01-16T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:35:32","slug":"a-siege-of-herons-occupies-blackfish-creek-marsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3150","title":{"rendered":"A Siege of Herons Occupies Blackfish Creek Marsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gbh-008-closeup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"752\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3152\" title=\"gbh 008 closeup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gbh-008-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"gbh 008 closeup\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gbh-008-closeup.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gbh-008-closeup-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">This week seems to be dedicated to learning\u00c2\u00a0unusual collective names for birds.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday we dealt with a murder of crows and today we&#8217;re documenting a siege of herons that has occupied the salt marshes of Blackfish Creek in South Wellfleet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-006-840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"605\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3156\" title=\"great blue heron 006 840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-006-840.jpg\" alt=\"great blue heron 006 840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-006-840.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-006-840-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Blue Heron (Modern Pterodactyl) Takes Flight<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">During warm summer days we glory in sighting an isolated great blue heron as it works the marsh channels around Lieutenant Island.\u00c2\u00a0 Our greatest pleasure comes when a heron takes flight in surprise and\u00c2\u00a0voices a gravelly &#8220;kraak&#8221; as it rises about the tall swaying grass.\u00c2\u00a0 To us, they resemble a prehistoric pterodactyl as they battle on-shore breezes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-011-840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"442\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3155\" title=\"great blue heron 011 840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-011-840.jpg\" alt=\"great blue heron 011 840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-011-840.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-011-840-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Siege of Great Blue Herons in Fox Island WMA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">As fall sets in and bright green marsh grasses mellow into tans and browns, herons gather into goodly sized groups.\u00c2\u00a0 We spied more than a dozen foraging through the marsh channels of the Fox Island Wildlife Management Area (WMA) between Indian Neck and Paine Hollow in South Wellfleet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-000-eight-840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1650\" height=\"1342\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3153\" title=\"great blue heron 000 eight 840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-000-eight-840.jpg\" alt=\"great blue heron 000 eight 840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-000-eight-840.jpg 1650w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-000-eight-840-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/great-blue-heron-000-eight-840-1024x832.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1650px) 100vw, 1650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Photo Quiz:\u00c2\u00a0 Can You Find the Eight Herons?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first Turtle Journal quiz, sadly with no prize to offer other than personal satisfaction, asks, &#8220;Can you find the eight great blue herons in the above image?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 You may wish to click on the picture to blow it up to higher resolution before straining your eyes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/hawk-001-840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"948\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3157\" title=\"hawk 001 840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/hawk-001-840.jpg\" alt=\"hawk 001 840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/hawk-001-840.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/hawk-001-840-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Unamused\u00c2\u00a0Raptor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The overlord of the Lieutenant Island salt marsh, our favorite marsh hawk was, like Queen Victoria, not amused by the antics of these\u00c2\u00a0gangling autumnal visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) This week seems to be dedicated to learning\u00c2\u00a0unusual collective names for birds.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday we dealt with a murder of crows and today we&#8217;re documenting a siege of herons that has occupied the salt marshes of Blackfish Creek in South Wellfleet. Blue Heron (Modern Pterodactyl) Takes Flight During warm summer days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3909,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}