{"id":4076,"date":"2013-07-16T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2013-07-16T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T12:45:41","slug":"adirondack-chronicles-2013-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/2013\/07\/adirondack-chronicles-2013-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack Chronicles 2013.6"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The great blue heron is one of my favorite subjects to photograph.\u00a0 With those endlessly fascinating yellow eyes and tendency to shape-shift posture constantly, the wading bird never fails to show some interesting traits.\u00a0 I caught this one in some marshy areas along Lake Durant:<\/p>\n

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This one was standing silently along the banks of the Cedar River Flow… taking off in flight to the far side of the lake when she sensed something moving nearby….<\/p>\n

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Loons love the quiet back waters of the Cedar River Flow….\"cedar<\/a><\/p>\n

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This view shows the beautiful big lake made from a dam along the Cedar River deep in the forest…. to get to this place you have to drive a 12 mile dirt road high up into the mountains near Indian Lake….<\/p>\n

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As I watched the loon across the lake, some other form of wildlife crept into my lens…<\/p>\n

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I refocused to be sure\u00a0this wasn’t a mirage…<\/p>\n

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Just so you don’t think I have all this wilderness to myself!\u00a0 Now as for the stand-up paddleboard… this is all the rage up here, but I confess I don’t quite get it.\u00a0 Looks uncomfortable, but I suppose it’s a way to display strength, coordination, and, well, some nice abs… You won’t see me on a stand-up paddleboard any time soon!\u00a0 And check out the little doggie on the kayak….\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone likes to paddle around….<\/p>\n

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This common merganser and her chicks came around a bend in the lakeside, and when they sensed my presence (I keep a distance,\u00a0my lens is long, but their senses are longer!…) they did that racing thing that is quite amazing to watch…<\/p>\n

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Last I saw them they were heading to the far end of the lake…<\/p>\n

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and the great blue heron was not far behind….<\/p>\n

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Great blue herons are the regal birds of waterways, but other forms of wildlife never cease to amaze!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adirondack-chronicles","tag-adirondacks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitydc.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}