{"id":11966,"date":"2018-09-16T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T17:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11966"},"modified":"2018-09-16T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T17:23:22","slug":"our-world-tuesday-trumpeter-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=11966","title":{"rendered":"Our World Tuesday &#8211; Trumpeter Swans of Yellowstone Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/LFHcG6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1849\/29329080057_a7561f7237.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0844\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw lots of sights on my August trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/yell\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Yellowstone National Park<\/a> to explore the park with my sister <a href=\"http:\/\/ellensnewblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen <\/a>who works there. One of the most graceful and beautiful things I saw was a lone Trumpeter Swan feeding in a river. (I think it was either the Firehole or Madison River, I forget which, the first flows into the second).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/LFHhjH\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1894\/29329095637_cee401e34d.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0835\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Definitely not a sight one sees in the wild in Oklahoma. We stopped and took lots of pictures of this guy (gal?). It was paddling around, dipping its head in the river, and sometimes tipping its entire body forward so just its butt was sticking up in the air. The Cornell Lab has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Trumpeter_Swan\/lifehistory\" target=\"_blank\">great web site on Trumpeter Swans here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2anftfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1860\/44216373102_c626517e86.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0839\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We stayed for quite a while looking at this swan as he swam about. My sister tells me that he stays there a lot and sees it almost every time she drives through the area. Just thinking about it gives me a sense of calm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2anfznU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1851\/44216393722_177d174ffb.jpg\" alt=\"_DSC0815\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the day we had been in Jackson, Wyoming and on the way back we saw a pair of Trumpeter Swans at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuge\/national_elk_refuge\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Elk Refuge<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ellen and I sure packed a lot of things into three days!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m linking with <a href=\"http:\/\/ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our World Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw lots of sights on my August trip to Yellowstone National Park to explore the park with my sister Ellen who works there. One of the most graceful and beautiful things I saw was a lone Trumpeter Swan feeding in a river. (I think it was either the Firehole or Madison River, I forget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11969,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions\/11969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}