{"id":5051,"date":"2014-12-14T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2015-01-14T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T13:35:37","slug":"return-of-the-snowies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5051","title":{"rendered":"RETURN OF THE SNOWIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Looks like another bumper year for a Snowy Owl irruption is underway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/audubon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5052\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/audubon.jpg\" alt=\"audubon\" width=\"4576\" height=\"5881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/audubon.jpg 4576w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/audubon-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/audubon-796x1024.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4576px) 100vw, 4576px\" \/><\/a><strong>SNOWY OWL, STRIX NYCTEA, JOHN JAMES \u00a0AUDUBON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Page from the world&#8217;s most expensive book, &#8220;Birds of \u00a0America&#8221;, by John James Audubon, 1840. I took this picture freehand from an original copy in London&#8217;s Natural History Museum under extremely difficult low light conditions without the use of flash through layers of protective glass. \u00a0Not too shabby a result if I do say so myself!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(NB. Make sure to \u00a0click the image to load a new web page and then click again to maximize and use the side and bottom navigation bars to examine the loving stroke work by one of the world&#8217;s greatest naturalist artists in detail. Humbling!!!)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/snowy-owl-fligh-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5053\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/snowy-owl-fligh-2.jpg\" alt=\"snowy owl fligh-2\" width=\"2728\" height=\"1867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/snowy-owl-fligh-2.jpg 2728w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/snowy-owl-fligh-2-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/snowy-owl-fligh-2-1024x700.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2728px) 100vw, 2728px\" \/><\/a><strong>SNOWY OWL IN FLIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An early Christmas present, I took this picture yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dedicated to the memory of Rick Poulin, a birding buddy, who passed away far too young on Saturday and now shares eternity with John James Audubon. They&#8217;ll have plenty to talk about. Rest in peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like another bumper year for a Snowy Owl irruption is underway. SNOWY OWL, STRIX NYCTEA, JOHN JAMES \u00a0AUDUBON Page from the world&#8217;s most expensive book, &#8220;Birds of \u00a0America&#8221;, by John James Audubon, 1840. I took this picture freehand from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5051\">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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-photography","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","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=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5109,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}