{"id":8056,"date":"2024-04-27T13:29:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T20:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2024-04-27T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T20:37:49","slug":"american-bittern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8056","title":{"rendered":"American bittern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9884_bittern.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"688\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This creature is not rare but quite asocial, misanthropic, and hidden. It usually walks gloomily in shallow water looking for fish, frogs, and other delicatessen. Bittern prefers overgrown marshes, so to meet and especially to see a bittern is not easy.<br \/>\nBefore this time, I saw the bitters twice by the standard way &#8211; something brown behind bushes.<br \/>\nThis time it has shown in all its glory. <\/p>\n<p>More of the bittern:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9836_bitter.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"711\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9844_bittern.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"802\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9848_bittern.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"712\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9854_bittern.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"676\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9869_bittern.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"674\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9889_bittern.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"735\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9897_bittern.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"671\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=7786996411334767&#038;set=a.494765153891299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss on FB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2024\/Wildlife\/Ladner\/Bittern\/DSC_9884_bittern.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"688\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This creature is not rare but quite asocial, misanthropic, and hidden. It usually walks gloomily in shallow water looking for fish, frogs, and other delicatessen. Bittern prefers overgrown marshes, so to meet and especially to see a bittern is not easy. Before this time, I saw <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=8056\">American bittern<\/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":[393,342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056"}],"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=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8059,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}