{"id":1924,"date":"2012-02-07T20:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2012-02-07T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:06:26","slug":"sharp-shinned-red-tailed-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"Sharp-shinned & Red-tailed Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon’s walk was to Reifel<\/a>. While admiring the Black-crowned Night-Heron in the usual trees just beyond the entrance, something a lot smaller caught my attention.<\/p>\n

\"Sharp-shinned
Sharp-shinned Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Sharp-shinned Hawk was roosting in the tree just above the herons. It was carefully watching the song birds around the feeder at the entrance.<\/p>\n

\"Sharp-shinned
Sharp-shinned Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few times it suddenly launched and swooped in on them, returning unsuccessful. On returning to the same place a little later there were now two in the same area.<\/p>\n

\"Sharp-shinned
Sharp-shinned Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Sharp-shinned Hawk is the smallest accipiter, not much bigger than a Robin.<\/p>\n

\"Sharp-shinned
Sharp-shinned Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have seen them here recently, but usually as they go streaking by through the trees. A pleasant change to have them sit still for a short while. Especially since it has been almost three years since I last managed a shot of one.<\/p>\n

At the end of the afternoon and as the sun was starting to go down,<\/p>\n

\"Red-tailed
Red-tailed Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… the young Red-tailed Hawk showed up again in the trees around the ponds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This afternoon’s walk was to Reifel. While admiring the Black-crowned Night-Heron in the usual trees just beyond the entrance, something a lot smaller caught my attention. A Sharp-shinned Hawk was roosting in the tree just above the herons. It was carefully watching the song birds around the feeder at the entrance. A few times it … Continue reading “Sharp-shinned & Red-tailed Hawks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[135,147],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-george-c-reifel-migratory-bird-sanctuary","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-sharp-shinned-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}