{"id":59781,"date":"2015-05-12T15:37:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59781"},"modified":"2015-05-12T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:11:52","slug":"when-fish-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59781","title":{"rendered":"When Fish Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on the deck here on Pine Island I was sorta reminded of a Sea Story. We regularly found<a href=\"http:\/\/animals.nationalgeographic.com\/animals\/fish\/flying-fish\/\"> Flying Fish<\/a> on deck while underway .<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if Bubbleheads and Airdales ever experienced the critters, however, anybody that bobbed on the surface in the REAL Navy likely encountered this tropical phenomenon. Oh yeah, and regular civilian sailors also likely have as well.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we&#8217;d see them regularly during the day. Sometimes seeming to surf our wake. But in the morning we&#8217;d be picking up their carcasses off the deck and tossing them over the side.<\/p>\n<p>So this ain&#8217;t exactly a real &#8220;Sea Story&#8221;, but&#8230; I&#8217;ve discovered that there is a sort of flying fish here. AND <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osprey\">Osprey<\/a> help with that particular effort.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting here looking out on Charlotte Harbor we regularly see fish jumping out of the water &#8211; not exactly flying, but likely dodging predators, and the Osprey are watching as well it seems.<\/p>\n<p>As noted &#8211; the nesting Osprey are watching. These beautiful birds will see the splash, their tummies must growl, and they soar. Aside: Water can be pretty hard. Gives &#8220;Bird Brain&#8221; an odd perspective.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; these birds will dive into the the water, and viola&#8230; a flying fish. Yeah, it is in the fisherman&#8217;s talons, but it IS in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Update for any who read this: Thor has announced his presence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on the deck here on Pine Island I was sorta reminded of a Sea Story. &hellip; <a title=\"When Fish Fly\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59781\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Fish Fly<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}