{"id":297,"date":"2008-05-11T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T07:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:03:43","slug":"the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/05\/the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"The pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos of a different type for today, Sunday, the day of rest.  These come from the pond adjacent to the soccer fields in Whitefish.  The soccer fields, baseball diamonds, a housing development, a condo development, North Valley Hospital (brand spankin&#8217; new!) and multiple medical and dental specialists offices now exist in an area that used to be marshy, wetlands.  They believe they have taken care of drainage issues&#8230;  The pond and some surrounding wetland acreage is home to birds, ducks and whatever other critters like Montana and marshy wetlands.  It is a pleasantly noisy (bird, frog, etc.) and pretty pond.  Below is what Karl and I saw on Friday when we walked here between appointments I had in Whitefish.  <\/p>\n<p>***note added&#8230;I need help identifying the bird.  I thought it was a type of warbler, but now in my house (YEA!!!) and I did find my bird book but on flipping through did not find this bird.  I&#8217;m in the throes of getting settled so will take more time later&#8230;unless someone can identify for me.  The photos are 2 different birds &#8211; one has more <del datetime=\"2008-05-11T14:40:43+00:00\">read<\/del> red on the top of its head. They were about the size of a robin.  And the bird of prey &#8211; I&#8217;m not positive whether that is a hawk or a golden eagle.  My impression when I decided to try and get a photo was that it was an eagle because of it&#8217;s size and manner of flight.  Help, please!<\/p>\n<p>***5\/15\/2008 addition <a target=\"Mental Pause Mama\" href=\"http:\/\/thementalpausechronicles.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Mental Pause Mama\" rel=\"noopener\">Mental Pause Mama<\/a> and my friend Kris identified the bird as a Yellow Headed Blackbird.  Additionally, Kris and my neighbor Mikee are the deciding votes for Osprey as the ID for the bird of prey&#8230;a difficult id as I did not get accurate color in the photo.  An interesting note is that Kris reports that the local newspaper ran a color photo of a Yellow Headed Blackbird that also had a red and orange &#8220;tinge&#8221;&#8230;anomaly of light or real color ????<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/Pond500646.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Pond\" height=\"646\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 646px\" title=\"Pond\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/Pond500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Pond\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Pond\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/PondBird500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Pond\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Pond\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/PondBirdAlone500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Pond\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Pond\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/PondBirdB375500.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"500\" style=\"width: 375px; height: 500px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/PondBirdC500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Pond\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Pond\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/PondBirdD500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Pond\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"Pond\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/May08\/PondHawk500497.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Pond\" height=\"497\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 497px\" title=\"Pond\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos of a different type for today, Sunday, the day of rest. These come from the pond adjacent to the soccer fields in Whitefish. The soccer fields, baseball diamonds, a housing development, a condo development, North Valley Hospital (brand spankin&#8217; new!) and multiple medical and dental specialists offices now exist in an area that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22107,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/22107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}