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Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis<\/em>) Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. During this week, I have been catching up on cataloging and culling photographs from 202 and a few residuals from the past couple of years. During 2019, I embarked on a marathon drive across the county to Florida. On the  return, I was close to Vicksburg and not having any schedule of plans, decided to overnight in the town. Touring the battlefield was an interesting experience. One the scene of a siege of the town, which was occupied by southern troops and townspeople surrounded by Union forces; the opposing forces mere meters form each other as they exchanged fire. A peaceful place now in comparison to the carnage and hardship experienced during this battle of the Civil War. Visiting in February, I was almost alone touring the battlefield. Lines of cannon, from both sides stood as a reminder of the event. Ironically, prior to the impromptu visit, I had just finished reading a book accounting in detailing the lives of soldiers and townsfolk (A Chain of Thunder<\/em>, Jeff Shaara). A much different scene now with the juxtaposition of an elegant East Bluebird peacefully sitting atop the wheel of an almost 160-year-old cannon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis) Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi. During this week, I have been catching up on cataloging and culling photographs from 202 and a few residuals from the past couple of years. During 2019, I embarked on a marathon drive across the county to Florida. On the  return, I was close to Vicksburg […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[287,3],"tags":[311,316,319,301,317,318],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avian-animals","category-blog","tag-boucherphotographie","tag-daveboucher","tag-easternbluebird","tag-nikon","tag-vicksburg","tag-vicksburgnationalmilitarypark"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51QJU-FJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boucherphotographie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}