{"id":35787,"date":"2026-05-21T00:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=35787"},"modified":"2026-05-15T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:55:57","slug":"osprey-hyatt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2026\/05\/osprey-hyatt-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Osprey @ Hyatt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35788\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/265_7443-RAW-hyatt-lake-osprey-low-light.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35788\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/265_7443-RAW-hyatt-lake-osprey-low-light.jpg\" alt=\"hyatt lake osprey\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><I>Pandion haliaetus<\/I><\/p><\/div>\n<p>I headed over to <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/tag\/hyatt-lake\/>Hyatt Lake<\/a> last week in search of bald eagles. I didn&#8217;t see any, but there was other wildlife to commune with. <\/p>\n<p>The lake was <b>much<\/b> lower than it was this <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2025\/09\/mount-mcloughlin-from-hyatt-lake\/>past September<\/a>. I would have thought that it would be a bit higher this time of year. I checked with A.I. and this was the result:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;April \u2013 May (Peak Capacity): Hyatt Lake usually hits its highest water levels of the year in May.<\/p>\n<p>June \u2013 August (Drawdown Phase): Water levels drop quickly. TID heavily releases stored water during these months to irrigate crops throughout the Rogue Valley.<\/p>\n<p>September \u2013 October (Annual Low): The lake hits its lowest levels of the year by October. In severe drought years, the reservoir has historically been drawn down to nearly empty (less than 2% capacity).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not good news&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I headed over to Hyatt Lake last week in search of bald eagles. I didn&#8217;t see any, but there was other wildlife to commune with. The lake was much lower than it was this past September. I would have thought that it would be a bit higher this time of year. I checked with A.I. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,87,101,10],"tags":[182,1507,1506,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35794,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35787\/revisions\/35794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}