{"id":15061,"date":"2024-06-22T09:04:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T14:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15061"},"modified":"2024-06-22T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:56:38","slug":"saturdays-critters-mainly-little-ones-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15061","title":{"rendered":"Saturday’s Critters – Mainly Little Ones Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For Father’s Day my wife and son treated me with a trip to the Tulsa Botanic Garden. I took my macro lens along and captured way too many bloom photos. I especially like to capture the insects on the blooms like this fritillary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And lots of bumble bees out and about in the garden just pollinating away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a wasp or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And I saw a lizard of some sort darting among the plants. There was also a cool as a cucumber garden cat but I was a neglectful blogger as I did not get its photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I took a hike on Turkey Mountain. I didn’t see any big critters but I captured this fritillary in the leaf litter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And a dragonfly hanging out on a fallen tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m really enjoying my Merlin Bird App. While hiking I would hear different birds and call up the app and it id’s them for me. I would look and look and only every once in a while spot one but the foliage would be way to thick to get a decent photo so I would move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am still having fun with my trailcam at home. I move it around. I get lots of images but very few “hits.” That’s okay. I love this male cardinal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also like to get birds in action like the one above coming in and the one below with the female cardinal leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The squirrels love the feeders and tend to dominate. My wife and I will periodically go outside and tell the squirrels to get lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My wife and I went on a bike ride on Tulsa’s River Parks. Stopping at what we call the Bear Fountain is always a refreshing rest stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

For Father’s Day my wife and son treated me with a trip to the Tulsa Botanic Garden. I took my macro lens along and captured way too many bloom photos. I especially like to capture the insects on the blooms like this fritillary. And lots of bumble bees out and about in the garden just […]<\/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":[3434,3693,3435,942,3125],"class_list":["post-15061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saturdays-critters","tag-insects","tag-merlin-bird-id","tag-pollinators","tag-saturdays-critters","tag-trailcam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061"}],"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=15061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15064,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15061\/revisions\/15064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}