{"id":516,"date":"2007-07-11T15:11:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T06:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-07-11\/516"},"modified":"2007-07-11T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T06:11:19","slug":"great-wet-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-07-11\/516","title":{"rendered":"Great Wet Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033615' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033615.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033615_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Wet Bird -- Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033615\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\nphotostream=\"japan,summer\"\ntitle=\"A wet great blue heron sits on a branch in the rain, in Kyoto, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>350 sec, f\/4, ISO 800,\n &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033615.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033615.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Wet Bird<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>We've had several days of rain... it is the rainy season in Japan, after\nall... and this morning <span class='nobr'>I noticed<\/span> Aotan (<a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-05-23\/466\"><span class='nobr'>a great<\/span> blue heron living\naround here<\/a>) sitting on <span class='nobr'>a branch<\/span> over the canal looking miserably wet. <span class='nobr'>He was still<\/span> there <span class='nobr'>a half<\/span> hour later, so <span class='nobr'>I got<\/span> out the camera (and the\numbrella) for <span class='nobr'>a picture.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>I took a picture from a distance, then came to the closest point on\nshore. <span class='nobr'>He was still<\/span> quite <span class='nobr'>a distance<\/span> away (much further than the mere three\nfeet that separated us the last time we met), so <span class='nobr'>I was<\/span> surprised when he\nimmediately flew away the moment <span class='nobr'>I greeted<\/span> him by name. <span class='nobr'>I guess<\/span> the rain's\nput someone into <span class='nobr'>a grumpy<\/span> mood, today.<\/p>\n\n<p>He flew up into a further away tree, which is where he was for the\npicture above. Below is his original perch over the canal.<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name='033605' href=\"\/i\/JEF_033605.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/JEF_033605_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"462\"\nalt=\"Kyoto, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"i033605\"\nindexhint=\"right\"\ntitle=\"A wet great blue heron sits on a branch over the Kyoto Biwako Canal, in the rain, in Kyoto, Japan\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class=\"camera-info robots-nocontent\">Nikon D200 + Nikkor 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 130mm &mdash; <sup>1<\/sup><big>\/<\/big>400 sec, f\/2.8, ISO 800,\n &mdash;\n<a  href=\"\/imageinfo.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fregex.info%2Fi%2FJEF_033605.jpg\">map &amp; image data<\/a> &mdash; <a href=\"\/blog\/proximity\/i\/JEF_033605.jpg\">nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The rain eventually stopped, and it seems that it'll be cloudy but not\nto hot tomorrow. Sounds like <span class='nobr'>a good<\/span> day to find something to take pictures\nof...<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We've had several days of rain... it is the rainy season in Japan, after all... and this morning I noticed Aotan (a great blue heron living around here) sitting on a branch over the canal looking miserably wet. He was still there a half hour later, so I got out the camera (and the umbrella) for a picture.<\/p> <p>I took a picture from a distance, then came to the closest point on shore. He was still quite a distance away (much further than the mere three feet that separated us the last time we met), so I was surprised when [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}