{"id":1587938,"date":"2017-08-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=d0b6324b19b26ce9273454406e3ba998"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:22:21","slug":"marl-bed-flats-7262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/marl-bed-flats-7262017\/","title":{"rendered":"Marl Bed Flats, 7\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I decided to head out to Marl Bed Flats to see what birds and bugs I might find. I was pleased to see that the flats aren’t nearly as dry as they were the last time I visited.<\/p>\n

There was standing water near the slough, and that was encouraging to me. I didn’t see a lot of birds, but there were bugs everywhere. I saw several species of dragonflies and damselflies. The biggest treat was seeing two mating Rambur’s Forktails.<\/p>\n

They didn’t mind me getting close with my camera, so I got my first decent photos of a mated pair.<\/p>\n

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Rambur’s Forktail<\/p>\n

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Blue Dasher<\/p>\n

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Blue Dasher<\/p>\n

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Little Blue Dragonlet<\/p>\n

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Eastern Amberwing<\/p>\n

I only photographed three butterflies: Little Yellow, Southern Skipperling, and Common\/White Checkered Skipper.<\/p>\n

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Little Yellow<\/p>\n

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Little Yellow<\/p>\n

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Southern Skipperling<\/p>\n

It was also fun to find a different species of bee fly (I think Poecilanthrax lucifer) and a new species of assassin bug (I think Acanthocephala terminalis).<\/p>\n

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Assassin Bug<\/p>\n

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Bee Fly<\/p>\n

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This morning I decided to head out to Marl Bed Flats to see what birds and bugs I might find. I was pleased to see that the flats aren’t nearly as dry as they were the last time I visited. There was standing water near the slough, and that was encouraging to me. I didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2148770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1530,648,5694],"class_list":["post-1587938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-damselflies","tag-dragonflies","tag-ramburs-forktail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}