{"id":8013,"date":"2016-08-01T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2016-08-01T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:39:08","slug":"take-5-whats-for-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-whats-for-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: What’s for Lunch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a scroll through your Instagram or Facebook feed, and there’s a good chance you’ll see a lot of pictures of food. Be it soulfully-prepared, home-cooked meals, fancy restaurant plates with artfully-drizzled sauces, or\u00a0indulgent, cheesy\u00a0diner dishes, it seems we can’t help but be captivated by food.<\/p>\n

We’re not the only ones! Our friends in the animal kingdom have appetites just as healthy as our own, so today we’ve lined up five photos of professional eaters in action, from\u00a0honeybees\u00a0to herons. If you’ve got great pictures of your own of hungry wildlife in action, enter the 2016 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors Photo Contest<\/a>. Bon app\u00e9tit!<\/p>\n

\"Baby

Baby Mallard \u00a9 Nathan Goshgarian, Photo Contest 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Very

Very Hungry Caterpillar \u00a9 Alyssa Mattei, Photo Contest 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Eastern

Eastern Chipmunk \u00a9 Colleen Bruso, Photo Contest 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Honey

Honey bee \u00a9 James Engberg, Photo Contest 2015<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Black-Crowned

Black-Crowned Night-Heron \u00a9 Derrick Jackson, Photo Contest 2015<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take a scroll through your Instagram or Facebook feed, and there’s a good chance you’ll see a lot of pictures of food. Be it soulfully-prepared, home-cooked meals, fancy restaurant plates with artfully-drizzled sauces, or\u00a0indulgent, cheesy\u00a0diner dishes, it seems we can’t help but be captivated by food. We’re not the only ones! Our friends in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-25f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17020,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/in-your-words-shawn-carey\/","url_meta":{"origin":8013,"position":0},"title":"In Your Words: Shawn Carey\u00a0","author":"Kaylin D.","date":"June 24, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Mass Audubon Council Member and Photography Instructor\u00a0 Shawn Carey Around 1987, I started with just a general interest in wildlife and casually watching birds. 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