{"id":13702,"date":"2022-01-13T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13702"},"modified":"2022-01-13T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:43:37","slug":"skywatch-friday-oxley-nature-center-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13702","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday – Oxley Nature Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Last Sunday morning I went hiking at Tulsa’s Oxley Nature Center. I ventured first to their North Woods area where there is almost always no one but me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I lucked out I took off and saw no one. Suits me. Can’t do any better social distancing than that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Didnt see any deer which was a disappointment but lots of birds and squirrels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And lots of sky. All the trees have been stripped of their leaves so I lots of blue sky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I finished I drove to the main part of Oxley Nature Center and asked where the otters might be found. They told me where to go and said that it is best to get there around 5 am to 6 am. So I don’t know if I’ll ever see the otters or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They said head to the big beaver lodge in the lake and they hang out from there to the waterway. So I did, you never know, maybe the otters would be feeling bored on a Sunday morning. I didn’t see any otters but I saw lots of ducks and geese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And some deer. I didn’t have a long lens so this very cropped shot is the best I could do with what I had. It was cool though. I was on a trail walking in parallel with their path so we stayed together for a couple hundred yards or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I found this cool bridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The otters will have to wait for later. I’ve never seen an otter in the wild and I would love to see these guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How about you? You ever have a wild otter sighting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m linking with Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday morning I went hiking at Tulsa’s Oxley Nature Center. I ventured first to their North Woods area where there is almost always no one but me. And I lucked out I took off and saw no one. Suits me. Can’t do any better social distancing than that! Didnt see any deer which was […]<\/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":[10],"tags":[1285],"class_list":["post-13702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-tulsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702"}],"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=13702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13703,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702\/revisions\/13703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}