{"id":14967,"date":"2024-04-14T08:36:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T13:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14967"},"modified":"2024-04-14T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T13:37:00","slug":"saturdays-critters-pelicans-and-more-on-the-arkansas-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=14967","title":{"rendered":"Saturday’s Critters – Pelicans and More on the Arkansas River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I went on a bike ride along Tulsa’s RiverParks trails the other day. I took my SuperZoom camera with me hoping that I would see something. It turns out that American White Pelicans were on the river that day. This is a group I spotted near where I started at 71st street. They were on a sandbar near the other side of the river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a closeup of them. I find them kind of comical on land. They are very graceful in the water and flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here is five miles north at the newly reconstructed Zink Lake Dam. They were paddling around fishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another closeup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And maybe 50 yards downstream of the dam this group of pelicans and great blue herons were trying their luck in the shallows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pelicans and herons seemed to tolerate each other’s presence pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the calm waters up stream of the dam a flotilla of geese were cruising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am linking with Eileen’s Saturday’s Critters<\/a>. Go check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went on a bike ride along Tulsa’s RiverParks trails the other day. I took my SuperZoom camera with me hoping that I would see something. It turns out that American White Pelicans were on the river that day. This is a group I spotted near where I started at 71st street. They were on […]<\/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":[954],"tags":[1290,1713,1041,1926,942,1285,1637],"class_list":["post-14967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturdays-critters","tag-arkansas-river","tag-bicycling","tag-geese","tag-pelicans","tag-saturdays-critters","tag-tulsa","tag-zink-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967"}],"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=14967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14968,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions\/14968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}