{"id":16307,"date":"2026-10-15T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=16307"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:13:25","slug":"tulsas-oxley-nature-center-skywatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=16307","title":{"rendered":"Tulsa&#8217;s Oxley Nature Center Skywatching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sCHrH4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55549448441_0b485c17d1.jpg\" alt=\"Prairie at Oxley Nature Center\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prairie at Oxley Nature Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sCJv62\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55549654919_57ac58296c_c.jpg\" alt=\"Morning Sun on the Trees at Oxley Nature Center\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trees at the edge of the prairie welcoming the morning sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sCJtYh\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55549651164_b7df4ed4eb_c.jpg\" alt=\"Bird Creek at Oxley Nature Center\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little further on I came upon Bird Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sCJ181\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later on in my hike I came across Coal Creek. This is the lowest I have ever seen it. I&#8217;m told by the staff that if one gets here early in the morning one can see a family of otters swimming around. I have yet to catch them. I&#8217;ve seen muskrats which I think some people confuse with otters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am linking with<a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong> Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a>. You can also go direct to the <a href=\"https:\/\/fresh.inlinkz.com\/home\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fresh.inlinkz.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>inlinkz linky<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prairie at Oxley Nature Center. The trees at the edge of the prairie welcoming the morning sun. A little further on I came upon Bird Creek. Later on in my hike I came across Coal Creek. This is the lowest I have ever seen it. I&#8217;m told by the staff that if one gets [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4146,4147,1374,1271],"class_list":["post-16307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skywatch-friday","tag-bird-creek","tag-coal-creek","tag-oxley-nature-center","tag-skywatch-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=16307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16308,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions\/16308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}