{"id":3200,"date":"2013-06-14T21:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T04:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2013-06-14T21:52:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T04:52:15","slug":"coopers-swallow-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=3200","title":{"rendered":"Cooper’s & Swallow Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day got better as it progressed and this afternoon’s walk was back to the North 40. No sign of the Bullock’s Oriole today, but while checking for them a familiar “pek pek” got my attention. It was coming from a tree behind me, one frequently used as a staging area\u00a0by the Cooper’s Hawk pair.<\/p>\n

\"Cooper's
Cooper’s Hawk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The adult male Cooper’s Hawk was on a branch inside the tree with prey in its talons. I could not make out what it had before he flew off towards the nesting area.<\/p>\n

With nest on the mind, I made my way to an area where I had previously seen some Tree Swallow activity and suspected there was a nest.<\/p>\n

\"Tree
Tree Swallow Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It did not take long after arriving before\u00a0I could see the adults\u00a0arriving and feeding the young in the nest.<\/p>\n

\"Tree
Tree Swallow Nest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While you can only see two here, I could make out at least three at one time. They look to be a good size and crowded in there, so\u00a0it will\u00a0probably\u00a0not be long before they fledge.<\/p>\n

One other fun shot from this afternoon,<\/p>\n

\"Squirrel\"
Squirrel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

… was this Squirrel stretched down the trunk of a tree eating leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The day got better as it progressed and this afternoon’s walk was back to the North 40. No sign of the Bullock’s Oriole today, but while checking for them a familiar “pek pek” got my attention. It was coming from a tree behind me, one frequently used as a staging area\u00a0by the Cooper’s Hawk pair. … Continue reading “Cooper’s & Swallow Nest”<\/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":[9,160,28],"tags":[54,148,99],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","category-north-40","category-other-photos","tag-coopers-hawk","tag-squirrel","tag-tree-swallow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","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=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}