{"id":3265,"date":"2007-08-19T19:08:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T23:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/19\/the-bird-that-you-can-see\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T19:08:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T23:08:33","slug":"the-bird-that-you-can-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/19\/the-bird-that-you-can-see\/","title":{"rendered":"the bird that you can see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a wildlife day today. At breakfast, we had a large raccoon amble across the deck. At lunchtime when I was setting up the grill, this large hawk was looming above me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bird1.jpg\" alt=\"bird1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bird2.jpg\" alt=\"bird2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bird3.jpg\" alt=\"bird3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What alerted me was the <em>skrrt, skrrt<\/em> of it rubbing its beak on the aerial, as in the last picture. Once it had finished gnawing on its recently deceased dinner, it sat about for a bit (quite literally fed up) seeming unperturbed by me sticking a big ol&#8217; lens at it. But then, if you had Leatherman tools for hands and tin-snips for a face, you wouldn&#8217;t be worried about anyone trying to mess with you either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a wildlife day today. At breakfast, we had a large raccoon amble across the deck. At lunchtime when I was setting up the grill, this large hawk was looming above me: What alerted me was the skrrt, skrrt of it rubbing its beak on the aerial, as in the last picture. Once it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[821,819,375,822,820,818,43],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-aerial","tag-beak","tag-d70","tag-fed-up","tag-hawk","tag-raccoon","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-QF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}