{"id":10903,"date":"2011-11-25T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T03:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2011-11-25T19:04:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T03:04:02","slug":"osprey-home-is-where-the-cell-tower-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=10903","title":{"rendered":"Home is Where the Cell Tower Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sequestered indoors for the rain, I&#8217;ve been sorting through my photo archives, hoping to cull my duds, once and for all. I came upon my gallery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/osprey\/id\/ac\">Osprey<\/a> shots &#8230; taken this summer as I checked in occasionally with a local nesting couple. These two never did not appear to produce any young, but there were long spans when I didn&#8217;t visit, so it&#8217;s possible. I hope to see them together again next year as the cycle begins anew in this cell phone tower. Fly safely, my Osprey friends! And stay away from those Central American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepanamanews.com\/pn\/v_14\/issue_15\/nature_06.html\">fish farms<\/a> (please).<\/p>\n<p><i>All of these images were shot, using my car as a blind, at a 600mm-equivalent distance and then cropped. The nest is above a populated parking lot, a busy intersection, and also a car dealership, so the Osprey are habituated to human presence. Even so, I&#8217;m cognizant of the importance of not bothering birds at nesting areas, and generally do not photograph at nests. In this case, I parked alongside other cars in the lot, and photographed from my window &#8212; extremely careful about not intruding or staying too long.<\/i><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequestered indoors for the rain, I&#8217;ve been sorting through my photo archives, hoping to cull my duds, once and for all. I came upon my gallery of Osprey shots &#8230; taken this summer as I checked in occasionally with a local nesting couple. These two never did not appear to produce any young, but there were long spans when I didn&#8217;t visit, so it&#8217;s possible. I hope to see them together again next year as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=10903\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-10903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-urban-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}