{"id":2545,"date":"2009-04-22T20:23:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T02:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:11:15","slug":"wayfarers-on-a-spring-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2009\/04\/wayfarers-on-a-spring-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayfarer&#8217;s on a Spring day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Lake9919A640427.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking from the west end of the &#8220;beach&#8221;, the location of the boat ramp, back towards Bigfork Bay (under the Bridge).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Lake9916A640427.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No snow, no ice, low water, beautiful day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Lake9922KarlDrinkDistant640427.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Handy to have a lake for a warm dog to get a drink.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Lake9926KarlDrink640427.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Lake9930KarlRamp640427.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"427\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 427px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I so missed my chance.  This eagle was sitting quietly in a tree near where I was standing.  I had been watching as I see a young eagle here fairly often and have a photo from last year:  <a target=\"On Eagle\u2019s Wings\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/2008\/07\/02\/on-eagles-wings\/\" title=\" On Eagle\u2019s Wings\" rel=\"noopener\"> On Eagle\u2019s Wings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I happened to look up.  But I didn&#8217;t have my camera out.  I tried for the in-flight but I was hurried.  You can tell it is a Bald Eagle and it is in the process of maturing &#8211; more white than last year, though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Eagle9908590500.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"500\" style=\"width: 590px; height: 500px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gear down!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Apr09\/Eagle9900A640406.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"406\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 406px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Flathead Lake, Wayfarer&#8217;s State Park &#8211; April 22, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/Spacer65050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking from the west end of the &#8220;beach&#8221;, the location of the boat ramp, back towards Bigfork Bay (under the Bridge). No snow, no ice, low water, beautiful day. Handy to have a lake for a warm dog to get a drink. I so missed my chance. This eagle was sitting quietly in a tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-nature","category-pets","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22296,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/22296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}