{"id":4547,"date":"2014-05-03T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=4547"},"modified":"2014-05-03T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:31:06","slug":"little-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=4547","title":{"rendered":"LITTLE GULL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out working the north shore of Lake Erie last week on a bright sunny morning and came across a \u00a0Bald Eagle standing guard at the Oakwood Cemetery in Port Colborne where half of my gene pool is buried.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bald-eagle-oakwood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4584\" alt=\"bald eagle oakwood\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bald-eagle-oakwood.jpg\" width=\"1135\" height=\"1357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bald-eagle-oakwood.jpg 1135w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bald-eagle-oakwood-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bald-eagle-oakwood-856x1024.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1135px) 100vw, 1135px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BALD EAGLE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While taking the obligatory shot, I noticed flocks of Bonaparte&#8217;s Gulls thronging the still ice-bound shore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BONAPARTES-PORT-COLBORNE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4585\" alt=\"BONAPARTE'S PORT COLBORNE\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BONAPARTES-PORT-COLBORNE.jpg\" width=\"3607\" height=\"1935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BONAPARTES-PORT-COLBORNE.jpg 3607w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BONAPARTES-PORT-COLBORNE-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BONAPARTES-PORT-COLBORNE-1024x549.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3607px) 100vw, 3607px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BONAPARTE&#8217;S GULLS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gulls were skittish and would not allow a decent approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Gull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4548\" alt=\"Little Gull\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Gull.jpg\" width=\"2550\" height=\"1998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Gull.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Gull-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Little-Gull-1024x802.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LITTLE GULL, PORT COLBORNE, ONTARIO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One solitary gull broke the pattern and decided to circle over my head. Challenge or welcome I still don&#8217;t know. \u00a0I was so intent on grabbing a good flight shot that I didn&#8217;t notice the black under the wing. Only when I got home did I realize that I had captured a good image of the uncommon Little Gull. Laugh out loud!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out working the north shore of Lake Erie last week on a bright sunny morning and came across a \u00a0Bald Eagle standing guard at the Oakwood Cemetery in Port Colborne where half of my gene pool is buried. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=4547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}