{"id":6147,"date":"2014-05-07T17:27:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/red-tailed-hawk\/"},"modified":"2014-05-07T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:27:30","slug":"red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/red-tailed-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/red-tailed-hawk-3.jpg' title='Red Tailed Hawk'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/red-tailed-hawk-3.jpg' alt='Red Tailed Hawk' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When we finished walking the dogs after breakfast this morning, I saw a hawk <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/red-tailed-hawk-4.jpg' title='perched'>perched on the roof<\/a> of the neighbors&#8217; house. I took the dogs in, grabbed my telephoto lens and went back out to take a photo of the bird. Shortly after I took the photo of the hawk perched, it took off and flew down toward the wash west of the house. <\/p>\n<p>I consulted Stokes&#8217; Field Guide to Birds and concluded that this bird is a red tailed hawk. The first entry in the guide indicated that red tails have &#8220;extremely variable plumage.&#8221; Red tails are also the most commonly seen hawk and range throughout most of the contiguous states and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge and on the link to see the perched hawk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we finished walking the dogs after breakfast this morning, I saw a hawk perched on the roof of the neighbors&#8217; house. I took the dogs&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}