{"id":8760,"date":"2019-11-17T23:31:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=8760"},"modified":"2019-11-17T23:31:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:31:20","slug":"wildlife-along-the-south-platte-river-wk-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/17\/wildlife-along-the-south-platte-river-wk-47\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife Along The South Platte River — wk 47"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For yesterday and today, I headed down to the South Platte River, at Littleton to practice some more bird photography. Beside the river is a pond where couple of geese were preening themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pair Of Geese Preening, South Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hanging around here for a half hour, one goose looked towards me, allowing me the capture this image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canada Goose On Tree Stump.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This afternoon, a Red-Tailed Hawk was perched in one of the trees near the river bank, facing away from me. I continued to walk until I could get a better view and made this image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red-Tailed Hawk, Littleton.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Heading south along the river, there were several Buffelhead Ducks. These little ducks feed by diving to find food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eight Buffelhead Ducks, South Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On the far bank, was a deer grazing among the grass. This deer had one horn that looked like it was deformed — growing forwards instead of upwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deer At South Platte Riverside.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I made my way back to the parking lot, and arrived home to see an amazing sunset at the end of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For yesterday and today, I headed down to the South Platte River, at Littleton to practice some more bird photography. Beside the river is a pond where couple of geese were preening themselves. Hanging around here for a half hour, one goose looked towards me, allowing me the capture this image. This afternoon, a Red-Tailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1674,1667,307,67,32,1675,25,1020],"class_list":["post-8760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-project52","tag-buffelheads","tag-deer","tag-ducks","tag-geese","tag-hawk","tag-littleton","tag-river","tag-south-platte"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t