{"id":11860,"date":"2018-11-05T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2018-11-02T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T19:33:45","slug":"take-5-comin-in-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-comin-in-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Comin’ In Hot!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clear the decks, because these five birds are coming in for a landing, and they are comin’ in hot! These photos were all submitted to past years of our Picture This: Your Great Outdoors<\/a> photo contest. The 2018 contest is closed, but the judges are hard at work picking the winners, so in the meantime please enjoy these five fantastic action shots and go capture some new images for next year’s photo contest!<\/p>\n

\"Osprey

Osprey \u00a9 Dennis Durette<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Wood

Wood Duck \u00a9 Paul McCarthy<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada Goose \u00a9 Davey Walters<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Greater

Greater Yellowlegs \u00a9 Rachel Bellenoit<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Canada

Canada Goose \u00a9 Marco Jona<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clear the decks, because these five birds are coming in for a landing, and they are comin’ in hot! These photos were all submitted to past years of our Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest. The 2018 contest is closed, but the judges are hard at work picking the winners, so in the meantime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":11864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[158],"tags":[28,83,84],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-take-5","tag-birds","tag-photo-contest","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2018\/11\/2437Davey_Walters13034.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-35i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10602,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-caption-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":11860,"position":0},"title":"Take 5: Caption This!","author":"Ryan D.","date":"February 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's play \"Caption That Photo\"! 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