{"id":573884105,"date":"2012-11-02T23:41:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T04:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884105"},"modified":"2012-11-05T00:33:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T06:33:22","slug":"hanging-with-the-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/hanging-with-the-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging with the raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable barn owl, or ghost owl, if you will. They will spook you in a barn if you aren&#8217;t ready for it, by the way:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov01.jpg\" alt=\"BarnOwl\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good look at a long-eared owl:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov03.jpg\" alt=\"BarnOwl\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A red shouldered hawk in flight:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov04.jpg\" alt=\"BarnOwl\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This Harris&#8217;s hawk was completing his first public flight. They live in the western deserts and are very social, working together &#8212; sometimes hopping on one another&#8217;s backs &#8212; to capture their prey. There is a hierarchy, much like bees and ants, about how they hunt, too. And they&#8217;re good for falconry, too:  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov09.jpg\" alt=\"BarnOwl\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Spirit, the bald eagle:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/nov12\/nov12.jpg\" alt=\"BarnOwl\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And a little video of these birds and more:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/telly.com\/embed.php?guid=JRKQ5&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"Telly video player \" class=\"twitvid-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburn.edu\/raptor\">raptor center<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The venerable barn owl, or ghost owl, if you will. They will spook you in a barn if you aren&#8217;t ready for it, by the way: Here&#8217;s a good look at a long-eared owl: A red shouldered hawk in flight: This Harris&#8217;s hawk was completing his first public flight. They live in the western deserts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573884105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-friends","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573884105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573884111,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573884105\/revisions\/573884111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573884105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573884105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573884105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}