{"id":3629,"date":"2017-08-04T21:38:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T01:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=3629"},"modified":"2017-08-04T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T01:38:31","slug":"the-pompy-and-grafton-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=3629","title":{"rendered":"The Pompy and Grafton Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a day for green herons on the Pompy on Tuesday: we saw several and they posed nicely.<figure id=\"attachment_3621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3621\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/green-heron-walking-8398-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3621\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green heron  &#8211;Ompompanoosuc River, VT 7\/31\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3622\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/green-heron-with-crest-8374-734x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"893\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/green-heron-with-crest-8374-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/green-heron-with-crest-8374-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/green-heron-with-crest-8374-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/green-heron-with-crest-8374-768x1071.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/green-heron-with-crest-8374.jpg 1010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irritated young green heron &#8212; &#8211;Ompompanoosuc River, VT 7\/31\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3623\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/green-heron-reflected-8406-1024x943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"589\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3623\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green heron reflected &#8211;Ompompanoosuc River, VT 7\/31\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We also saw great blue herons on the Pompy as well as at Grafton Pond on Wednesday.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3620\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/great-BLUE-heron-8334-805x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"814\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3620\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great blue heron &#8211;Ompompanoosuc River, VT 7\/31\/17<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3630\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/great-blue-heron-8452-1013x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"647\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3630\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great blue heron &#8211;Grafton Pond, NH 8\/1\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The views of Mt Cardigan is always nice.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3627\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Jane-and-Mt-Cardigan-8531-1024x797.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"498\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3627\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane and Mt Cardigan &#8211;Grafton Pond, NH 8\/1\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOf course we saw loons at the pond: a couple that surfaced close to the kayaks and a parent with 2 chicks,<figure id=\"attachment_3626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3626\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loon-8547-906x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"723\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3626\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loon &#8211;Grafton Pond, NH 8\/1\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3625\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loon-8544-1024x816.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3625\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loon &#8211;Grafton Pond, NH 8\/1\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3631\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loon-and-babies-departing-8514-1024x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loon-and-babies-departing-8514-1024x648.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loon-and-babies-departing-8514-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loon-and-babies-departing-8514-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loon-and-babies-departing-8514-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/loon-and-babies-departing-8514.jpg 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loon with chicks &#8211;Grafton Pond, NH 8\/1\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>and saw geese and a dog on a SUP.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3628\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/goose-8480-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/goose-8480-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/goose-8480-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/goose-8480-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/goose-8480-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/goose-8480.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada goose &#8211;Grafton Pond, NH 8\/1\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3624\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3624\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dog-on-SUP-8562-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3624\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dog who was not sure he wanted to be on a SUP&#8211;Grafton Pond, NH 8\/1\/17<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a day for green herons on the Pompy on Tuesday: we saw several and they posed nicely. We also saw great blue herons on the Pompy as well as at Grafton Pond on Wednesday. The views of Mt Cardigan is always nice. Of course we saw loons at the pond: a couple that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/?p=3629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Pompy and Grafton Pond&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,34,65,63,36,66],"class_list":["post-3629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canadian-geese","tag-grafton-pond","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-green-heron","tag-loon","tag-ompompanoosuc-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3S4pT-Wx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5362,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions\/5362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindpictures.com\/corner\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}