{"id":1246,"date":"2015-12-07T23:16:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2016-11-12T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T09:23:20","slug":"osprey-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/2015\/12\/07\/osprey-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Osprey Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Michigan Osprey<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h3><em>One Early Morning in Kensington\u00a0MetroPark<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>One of the biggest, badest set of menacing looking talons in all the land, has returned &#8211;<strong> Osprey in Michigan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The early morning air was crisp and chilly to my hands, and also it seemed to have\u00a0an operational effect\u00a0my camera equipment. There was a slight mist on the water\u2019s surface and off in the distance the mist became a transparent milky white that appeared to be\u00a0sandwiched\u00a0between the\u00a0bare\u00a0tree tops and the water; seagulls circling low to the water\u2019s surface\u00a0disappeared as each gull darted\u00a0in and out of the thick white mist.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Spring Arrival of the\u00a0Michigan Osprey<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>It\u00a0wasn\u2019t long before my camera equipment swung into action. A large shape menacing\u00a0bird of prey M<em>ichigan Osprey<\/em> in flight was heading my way with a trail of squawking seagulls chasing close behind. It was the infamous Osprey. The Michigan Osprey had caused a great deal of alarm in\u00a0other resident birds living on\u00a0the lake; claiming to be king of the domain until the Osprey with\u00a0its massive and intimidating flight divide the fog.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"michigan osprey\" href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/nature-photography-michigan-osprey\/michigan-osprey-photo-by-ike-austin\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-225\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-225 \" title=\"Michigan Osprey - Photo by Ike Austin\" src=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Michigan-Osprey-Photo-by-Ike-Austin.jpg\" alt=\"Michigan Osprey\" width=\"392\" height=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arrival of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Michigan Osprey<\/span> 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Osprey One Early Morning in Kensington\u00a0MetroPark One of the biggest, badest set of menacing looking talons in all the land, has returned &#8211; Osprey in Michigan. The early morning air was crisp and chilly to my hands, and also it seemed to have\u00a0an operational effect\u00a0my camera equipment. There was a slight mist on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/2015\/12\/07\/osprey-michigan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[242,421],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nature-photography.daystarbooks.com\/wp_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}