{"id":38978,"date":"2013-05-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:47:15","slug":"hyotanike-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/hyotanike-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyotanike Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I had a little bit of time and the weather was great, so I went to nearby Hyotanike lake to see what was happening.<\/p>\n

This lake has very nice scenery but is usually a bit low on bird life other than the resident Mallard and some introduced ducks.<\/p>\n

But the Barn Swallows love drinking and bathing in the lake, so this is another good place to try to photograph them in flight.<\/p>\n

A female Common Kingfisher was also briefly present.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Barn Swallow Bathing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I had a little bit of time and the weather was great, so I went to nearby Hyotanike lake to see what was happening. This lake has very nice scenery but is usually a bit low on bird life other than the resident Mallard and some introduced ducks. But the Barn Swallows love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2192953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-swallow-1964-1024x6821.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[705,875,7835,2449,1097],"class_list":["post-38978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-barn-swallow","tag-common-kingfisher","tag-japan","tag-john-andrew-wright","tag-mallard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}