{"id":955932,"date":"2016-06-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=1c6ba4b04f7c3c0072c51f145704a18c"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:11:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:11:25","slug":"virginia-opossum-with-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/virginia-opossum-with-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Opossum with Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday morning I drove out to the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive. It’s one of my favorite places for birding, and I was hoping to photograph a Yellow-breasted Chat that had been located there the day before. I heard two calling and singing in different places, but neither was interested in coming into view so I could get his photo. Still, it was a fun drive.<\/p>\n

My favorite moment, though, had nothing to do with birds. I saw an opossum walking towards me. At first I thought it had some sort of deformity. It looked like it had a growth coming out the left side of its head. But as it came closer, I noticed she had 4 little ones clinging on to her! Because one was covering her eyes, I think she was more concerned with her young than with me.<\/p>\n

So I crouched down and remained motionless to let it get closer. When it came closer than my camera could focus, I backed up. She seemed totally unconcerned with me until I stood up to walk away, at which point she wandered into the taller grasses. These moments made my day.<\/p>\n

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Opossum with Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Opossum with Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Opossum with Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Opossum with Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Opossum with Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yesterday morning I drove out to the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive. It’s one of my favorite places for birding, and I was hoping to photograph a Yellow-breasted Chat that had been located there the day before. I heard two calling and singing in different places, but neither was interested in coming into view so I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2196537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2016\/05-28\/i-7PPf7Fj\/0\/L\/_MG_8631-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1105],"class_list":["post-955932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-virginia-opossum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955932","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=955932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}