{"id":2301,"date":"2020-09-13T18:03:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2020-09-14T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:17:48","slug":"bull-elks-of-magic-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"Bull Elk of Magic Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve purchased a camcorder.  I decided that after decades of still photos, it was time to broaden my horizons and get into moving pictures. Of course for me that means a lot of nature oriented stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still learning the ins and outs of video editing, codecs, and rendering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted below is the third video that I&#8217;ve created. Recently I hiked up to Magic Valley in the late afternoon hoping to see some elk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls poster=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/elknumber1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/media\/Magic Valley Elk-Low.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>The Young Bulls of Magic Valley.  Higher res. version is <a href=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/media\/Magic Valley Elk-High.mp4\">here<\/a> (right click to download).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I first arrived, things were really quiet.  I thought perhaps most of the elk had already begun the migration to lower elevations, and perhaps they had. But around 6:00 pm, a bull emerged from the forest on the opposite side of the valley from where I was sitting. A total of 3 young bulls emerged, one following the other. I do suspect the rest of the herd migrated to lower elevations because they weren&#8217;t visibly around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting is the curiosity they had in me.  Throughout the video they are moving closer, yet are annoyed by my presence. I never moved from my spot or approached them. There&#8217;s lots of urine involved. There&#8217;s not much audio to hear until the #2 elk moves closer to join the #1 elk, when he commences to bark at me.  At the beginning, they are over 100 yards from me.  By the end they are probably only 20-30 yards above me on the hillside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve purchased a camcorder. I decided that after decades of still photos, it was time to broaden my horizons and get into moving pictures. Of course for me that means a lot of nature oriented stuff. I&#8217;m still learning the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=2301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-elk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}