[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-seldovia-critters":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I took loads of sea otter photos on our trip to Alaska, they didn't seem to mind our boat nudging up fairly close for a peek. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv9-1-5c2b356214.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI found this pot during our foray at the dump, at the same time as I nabbed the roller blades. So I painted the pot before I did the \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/214902.html\">painting on cardboard\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv-1497650527.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv19-1-31844701b9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Lot more animals photos here, mostly otters-->\\r\n\\r\nMy aunt and uncle had a little bird house on their deck, so we got to see a family of swallows fly in and out all day. I think this is the male one, since his feathers are so bright. There were also lots of bald eagles hanging out across the slough, waiting for salmon to swim by. For some reason, the crows liked to give them hell; they'd even jump on their backs. And the eagles would put up with it until finally they'd crack, and kill one of the crows. It was so weird. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv2-1-16116d9a2b.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv18-1-1380a2e3b7.jpg\"> \\r\nThe place was never quiet because the magpies were always squabbling. I wish \u003Ca href=\"http://www.garynorthfield.co.uk\">Gary Northfield\u003C/a> had been there, he's always watching the birds from his balcony; perhaps he would've made some sense of all the fraught avian politics.\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv6-1-02dc922056.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI was totally in love with the otters.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv15-1-9cf05dc89a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv12-1-a0bb22f2c3.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv14-1-8e5015bc63.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv13-1-0a59aada0c.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv11-1-4f4c46d60b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv10-1-6fa4ce9c42.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nWe didn't actually see any bears, but there was bear scat everywhere, so we were never far from them. Here's one of the piles we saw when we forgot to bring along the bear bells and had to spend a whole hike singing very loudly.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv5-1-400a652788.jpg\"> \u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv16-1-0bc358a688.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nCamel Rock really does look like a camel:\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv3-1-696dc9778d.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI found this sea slug on the beach. It did this crazy thing where it puked out its whole face to crawl forward. Or something, I wasn't quite sure what it was doing.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv4-1-ed8a6a5ca5.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd here's a fine specimen of a Great-horned kinsfolk:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/seldv17-1-5ed2bb02bf.jpg\">","2009-07-13T22:54:00.000Z","seldovia-critters",[],"seldovia critters",1776628732909]