{"id":573892843,"date":"2020-12-15T21:41:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T02:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892843"},"modified":"2020-12-17T02:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:27:51","slug":"we-had-a-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/12\/15\/we-had-a-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was having lunch when The Yankee sent me a text, from upstairs, to look out into the backyard. Her office overlooks the bird feeders in the backyard, and the maple tree that guards them. And, in that tree, a patient sentinel sat, this red shouldered hawk who watched them come and go. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec14.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he stayed for a while, and I had the opportunity to observe him from our upstairs raptor blind. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec15.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Probably he was looking for one of the critters that sneak up to eat seeds on the ground. There are a few squirrels and at least one chipmunk and who knows how many moles. This hawk doesn&#8217;t want moles, but I&#8217;d like him to give them a shot. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec16.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I took 33 photos. And these are the best ones.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec17.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t get a good shot of him flying off. He went in a hurry.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec18.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And he went without a snack.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec19.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But we did enjoy the visit. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec20.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I hope he comes back soon. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/dec20\/dec21.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hope you do, too. There could be a menagerie around here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having lunch when The Yankee sent me a text, from upstairs, to look out into the backyard. Her office overlooks the bird feeders in the backyard, and the maple tree that guards them. And, in that tree, a patient sentinel sat, this red shouldered hawk who watched them come and go. Anyway, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobby","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573892843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892846,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892843\/revisions\/573892846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}