{"id":9419,"date":"2017-07-17T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T17:33:03","slug":"take-5-catch-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-catch-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Catch of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summertime and the fishing is good! Check out these five photos (all submitted in past years to our annual photo contest<\/a>) of birds chowing down on the catch of the day, including everything from fish to frogs to spiny crustaceans!<\/p>\n

Have you taken a great photo of wildlife chowing down on a good meal? Submit your nature photos to the 2017 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest<\/a> today!<\/p>\n

\"Green

Green Heron \u00a9 John Harrison<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Belted

Belted Kingfisher \u00a9 Christopher Ciccone<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Great

Great Black-backed Gull \u00a9 Mike Duffy<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Heron

Heron (likely Great Blue) \u00a9 Jennifer Atwood<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Osprey

Osprey \u00a9 Richard Cuzner<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summertime and the fishing is good! Check out these five photos (all submitted in past years to our annual photo contest) of birds chowing down on the catch of the day, including everything from fish to frogs to spiny crustaceans! Have you taken a great photo of wildlife chowing down on a good meal? Submit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":9504,"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-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-take-5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/07\/Christopher_CicconeFI.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-2rV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10602,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-caption-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":9419,"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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