{"id":9680,"date":"2023-05-28T21:43:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T04:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=9680"},"modified":"2023-05-28T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T04:43:09","slug":"night-herons-on-the-south-platte-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/28\/night-herons-on-the-south-platte-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Herons on the South Platte River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While out daughter Susan was visiting us, the two of us took a trip to the South Platte river to see what birds we could find. After finding a Night Heron, she became entranced by these birds fishing among the rocks. It turned out that there were 5 Black-Crowned Night Herons spread out across the width of the river! What luck. We spent most of the next hour watching these herons as the they were fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Black-Crowned Night Heron. South Platte.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

These birds are really amazing to watch. Look as those bulging eyes that I managed to capture in the following image.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Heron, Hunting, South Platte.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This was the heron closest to where were sitting close to the bank of the river. Soon the heron spread its wings an did some rock hopping to move to a new location.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Heron, Rock Hopping.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here the heron continued fishing. Success at last, as it caught something from the river! Susan saw several herons catching some prey. I only managed to get one decent image, with the heron swallowing prey.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Heron, Caught Some Prey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After munching on the food, this heron did some rock hopping. I captured this heron in mid-stride.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Heron, Mid-Stride, No 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here is the next image in mid-stride.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Heron, Mid-Stride, No 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Finally, this heron resumed fishing from the next rock!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Heron, Resume Fishing, South Platte.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We both enjoyed the time spent observing these herons as they went about hunting for fish and other critters swimming in the Platte River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While out daughter Susan was visiting us, the two of us took a trip to the South Platte river to see what birds we could find. After finding a Night Heron, she became entranced by these birds fishing among the rocks. It turned out that there were 5 Black-Crowned Night Herons spread out across the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[628,1872,1715,25,1873,1020],"class_list":{"0":"post-9680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-fishing","8":"tag-hunting","9":"tag-night-heron","10":"tag-river","11":"tag-rock-hopping","12":"tag-south-platte"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2w8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9682,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions\/9682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}