{"id":37822,"date":"2023-12-03T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=37822"},"modified":"2023-12-03T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:05:54","slug":"urban-falconry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=37822","title":{"rendered":"Urban Falconry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rough-legged-Hawk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37821\" src=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rough-legged-Hawk-300x291.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rough-legged-Hawk-300x291.png 300w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Rough-legged-Hawk.png 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>Two days ago, we were driving down a street when a squirrel ran across the roadbed. And then just above it came a lightning-fast flurry of wings. Missing its prey, the ivory-silver hunter perched on the electric wires &#8212; a full-grown rough-legged hawk or northern harrier. I&#8217;ve seen ospreys flying home with flounders in their talons, and our neighborhood was for a while the territory of a pair of peregrine falcons. I remember how birds would fall still and deathly silent when they heard the peregrine shriek. But watching the harrier stoop was a visceral experience. Hard not to think of Tony Curtis loosing his in <em>The Vikings<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Image: Rough-legged Hawk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago, we were driving down a street when a squirrel ran across the roadbed. And then just above it came a lightning-fast flurry of wings. Missing its prey, the ivory-silver hunter perched on the electric wires &#8212; a full-grown rough-legged hawk or northern harrier. I&#8217;ve seen ospreys flying home with flounders in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[307,306,308],"class_list":["post-37822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-and-culture","tag-falcon","tag-hawk","tag-hunter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37826,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37822\/revisions\/37826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}