{"id":8042,"date":"2010-11-12T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2010-11-12T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T22:54:16","slug":"favorite-flickr-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=8042","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Flickr Moments . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . when a Flickr comment captures an image better than you did . . .<\/p>\n<p>I shot this photo at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, during a break in one of last winter&#8217;s storms. The winds buffeted the bluffs so hard, the ravens were flinging themselves into the headwinds, stationary &#8212; suspended in space with just a few navigational tweaks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peteducation.com\/article.cfm?c=15+1829&#038;aid=2776\">feathers<\/a>. They&#8217;d land back on the bluffs and start the process all over. They&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertfound.org\/circleoffriends\/circle_loren_ravens.html\">so transparent<\/a>. We know how fun this is.<\/p>\n<p><sup><em>Check out the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnn.com\/lifestyle\/pets-animals\/stories\/a-common-raven-may-be-uncommon-way-to-find-lost-hikers\">Shade, the search and rescue raven<\/a> for some insight into raven intelligence.<\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Flickr Comment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Control tower this is Corvus Negro 731 requesting clearance on final approach we have landing gear down and locked. flaps extended and down 10% airspeed on nominal glideslope, are we green for go?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Photo:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Super Bird\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taylar\/4143175576\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2499\/4143175576_4fa5b9107c_b.jpg\" alt=\"Common Raven in Headwind\" width=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo:<\/strong> Common Raven (<em>Corvus corax<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related posts:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/11\/a-murder-of-crows-on-pb\/\">A Murder of Crows<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/05\/the-ravens-of-ocean-beach\/\">The Ravens of Ocean Beach<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/03\/benefits-of-creative-commons-license\/\">The Expanding Universe of Creative Commons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . when a Flickr comment captures an image better than you did . . . I shot this photo at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, during a break in one of last winter&#8217;s storms. The winds buffeted the bluffs so hard, the ravens were flinging themselves into the headwinds, stationary &#8212; suspended in space with just a few navigational tweaks of feathers. They&#8217;d land back on the bluffs and start the process all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=8042\"> [&#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":[356,358],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-corvids","tag-ravens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","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=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}