{"id":2145,"date":"2026-10-22T08:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2026-10-22T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:41:06","slug":"great-blue-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/?p=2145","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"744\" data-attachment-id=\"2144\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/?attachment_id=2144\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dsc01359.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1454\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"dsc01359\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dsc01359-1024x744.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dsc01359-1024x744.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dsc01359-1024x744.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dsc01359-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dsc01359-1536x1117.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dsc01359.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Great Blue Heron: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, October 2026 \u2014 I always say if you want to get a kid hooked on birding, take them to see a Great Blue Heron. Better yet, give them a close-up view of a Great Blue Heron through a spotting scope. Great Blues stand very still for a long time, so the kids can get an eyeful, and the intricate plumage and patterns certainly give them something to see. And when they do move, it is also something to see, and unless they take flight, slow enough to see it. Sony a7CR with the FE 100-400 f5.6-f8 OS zoom at 400mm. Cropped to 19mp so about 700mm effective field of view. My birds and wildlife mode. Processed in Photomator. This was just as the sun was rising, still in the shade, so ISO 8000 with some noise reduction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Blue Heron: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, October 2026 \u2014 I always say if you want to get a kid hooked on birding, take them to see a Great Blue Heron. Better yet, give them a close-up view of a Great Blue Heron through a spotting scope. Great Blues stand very still for a long time, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/?p=2145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Blue Fall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p522q5-yB","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}