{"id":166201,"date":"2025-12-27T05:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?page_id=166201"},"modified":"2025-12-27T05:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T11:31:33","slug":"great-blue-heron-and-turtle-on-christmas-day-at-sequoyah-nwr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/videos\/great-blue-heron-and-turtle-on-christmas-day-at-sequoyah-nwr\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Blue Heron and turtle on Christmas Day at Sequoyah NWR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube fusion-aligncenter\" style=\"--awb-max-width:1120px;--awb-max-height:630px;--awb-width:100%;--awb-margin-bottom:24px;\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT11S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Great Blue Heron and turtle on Christmas Day at Sequoyah NWR \" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"This is a short video of a Great Blue Heron on Christmas Day at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. The sound in the background and the reason for the heron flying away is because of a bicyclist that came down the gravel road. I didn&#039;t even notice the turtle in the video until the next day while reviewing my photos and videos. The temp nearly reached 80F on Christmas Day!\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-12-25T05:24:21-06:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/r6EiUoAPbhY\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r6EiUoAPbhY\" \/><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><lite-youtube videoid=\"r6EiUoAPbhY\" class=\"landscape\" params=\"wmode=transparent&autoplay=1&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\" title=\"Great Blue Heron and turtle on Christmas Day at Sequoyah NWR \" data-button-label=\"Play Video\" width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" data-thumbnail-size=\"auto\" data-no-cookie=\"off\"><\/lite-youtube><\/div><\/div>\n<p>This is a short video of a Great Blue Heron on Christmas Day at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. The sound in the background and the reason for the heron flying away is because of a bicyclist that came down the gravel road. I didn&#8217;t even notice the turtle in the video until the next day while reviewing my photos and videos. The temp nearly reached 80F on Christmas Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short video of a Great Blue Heron on Christmas Day at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge. The sound in the background and the reason for the heron flying away is because of a bicyclist that came down the gravel road. I didn&#8217;t even notice the turtle in the video until the next day while reviewing my photos and videos. 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