{"id":7657,"date":"2021-04-17T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=7657"},"modified":"2021-04-17T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T17:33:20","slug":"great-egret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=7657","title":{"rendered":"Great Egret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7683_egret.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"751\"><\/p>\n<p>Great Egret aka Ardea alba is a rare visitor of the Northwest coast. So more pleasant was to meet it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bird strolled pensively along the ditch between the field and the road.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7648_egret.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"672\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7657_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"671\"><\/p>\n<p>The egret ignored us completely, and was concentrated on the activity in the ditch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7663_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"718\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7666_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"777\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7679_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"696\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7684_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7685_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"685\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7700_egret.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7687_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"680\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7689_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"631\"><\/p>\n<p>The degree had a dinner. The ditch was full of fish, but they were very small. So, the bird needed a lot of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7682_egret.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7693_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"676\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7670_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"745\"><\/p>\n<p>After every swallowing, the egret chattered with satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7695_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"699\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7673_heron.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"757\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2021\/WA%20travel\/Big%20Egret\/DSC_7683_egret.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" width=\"1000\" height=\"751\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Great Egret aka Ardea alba is a rare visitor of the Northwest coast. So more pleasant was to meet it.<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=7657\">Great Egret<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}