{"id":66,"date":"2012-03-04T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/138.68.22.140\/darylmarling\/\/public\/?p=66"},"modified":"2016-08-26T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T20:18:34","slug":"03022012-fort-worth-nature-center-great-blue-heron-and-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"03\/02\/2012 Fort Worth Nature Center &#8211; Great Blue Heron and Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"full-image-float-left ssNonEditable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.darylmarling.com\/NatureGalleries\/Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-FWNC\/2010-FWNC-Wildlife\/16081289_BjRkvW#!i=1735195140&amp;k=pwW26V4\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.darylmarling.com\/NatureGalleries\/Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-FWNC\/2010-FWNC-Wildlife\/i-pwW26V4\/0\/S\/dm2012030200-0418-S.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1330869367655\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"full-image-float-left ssNonEditable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.darylmarling.com\/NatureGalleries\/Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-FWNC\/2010-FWNC-Wildlife\/16081289_BjRkvW#!i=1735195321&amp;k=XRDW3xX\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.darylmarling.com\/NatureGalleries\/Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-FWNC\/2010-FWNC-Wildlife\/i-XRDW3xX\/0\/Th\/dm2012030200-0454-Th.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1330869475225\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"full-image-float-left ssNonEditable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.darylmarling.com\/NatureGalleries\/Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-FWNC\/2010-FWNC-Landscapes\/16081299_FJhF5w#!i=1735194377&amp;k=2hDJqBF\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.darylmarling.com\/NatureGalleries\/Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-FWNC\/2010-FWNC-Landscapes\/i-2hDJqBF\/0\/Th\/dm2012030200-0546-Th.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1330869576492\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span>These are images from the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge taken late Friday afternoon.\u00a0 We had just started walking down Crosstimbers Trail when we ran into a kayaker who told us about a 10 foot gator laying on a log a quarter mile upstream.\u00a0 As we made our way to catch a glimpse of him, a Great Blue Heron flew by and landed on a tree across the river.\u00a0 The background was a little cluttered, but I thought the shadows, patterns, and motion of his wings as he landed were interesting. \u00a0 We found the gator about where he said it would be.\u00a0 It had moved into the water and appeared to be feeding&#8230; and it was indeed in the 10 foot range&#8230;the largest I had personally seen at the Center.\u00a0 As we worked our way back down the trail, I finished off with a couple of shots of the Bird Blind (I seem to take a lot of those).\u00a0 It was a nice day.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.darylmarling.com\/NatureGalleries\/Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-FWNC\/2010-FWNC-Wildlife\/16081289_BjRkvW#!i=1735195321&amp;k=XRDW3xX\">link<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.darylmarling.com\/NatureGalleries\/Fort-Worth-Nature-Center-FWNC\/2010-FWNC-Landscapes\/16081299_FJhF5w#!i=1735194753&amp;k=JPcWZ2k\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are images from the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge taken late Friday afternoon.\u00a0 We had just started walking down Crosstimbers Trail when we ran into a kayaker who told us about a 10 foot gator laying on a log a quarter mile upstream.\u00a0 As we made our way to catch a glimpse of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fwnc","category-nature","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/public.darylmarling.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}