{"id":305418,"date":"2025-10-15T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305418\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:13:15","slug":"sunrise-hop-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/305418\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise Hop | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Costermans&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Marc Costermans (Belgium) finds a male black grouse hopping on the spot against the rising Scandinavian sun.<\/p>\n<p>Marc camped out in the snow for five nights to ensure he was in position at sunrise to get the picture he\u2019d envisaged.<\/p>\n<p>Lying on his belly, he waited, hoping that one of the 15 black grouse would move into line with the sun.<\/p>\n<p>An hour later, one obliged.<\/p>\n<p>Male black grouse have blue-black iridescent plumage. As they raise their tails, they reveal brilliant white covert feathers.<\/p>\n<p>For a few weeks in spring, they congregate at sites called leks to compete for dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Costermans&#8217;s Image Marc Costermans (Belgium) finds a male black grouse hopping on the spot against the rising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":305419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,17500,67,132,68,80059,154531,154529,154530,154528],"class_list":{"0":"post-305418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-nature-photography","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-wildlife-competition","17":"tag-wildlife-images","18":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","19":"tag-wildphoto","20":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115378363185586250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}