{"id":1598,"date":"2018-01-19T07:24:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2018-10-13T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T18:57:00","slug":"opted-for-a-day-in-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/19\/opted-for-a-day-in-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Opted for a Day in the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/166878021\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mercury is rising and Manitoba is coming out of a deep freeze&#8230;and the clicker finger was itchy.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving the open farmlands and Snowy Owls for another day I went in search of the Hawk Owl seen near the end of Dec.<\/p>\n<p>First couple passes at different locations are without any reward&#8230;then finally with thanks to a crow that seemed overly upset for some reason the owl was soon spotted.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the crow had been harassing the owl perched higher in a tree and it had found safety in the lower heavier bush line.<\/p>\n<p>After some time it was obvious the owl was on the hunt as it moved from higher to lower perches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mercury is rising and Manitoba is coming out of a deep freeze&#8230;and the clicker finger was itchy. Leaving the open farmlands and Snowy Owls for another day I went in search of the Hawk Owl seen near the end of Dec. First couple passes at different locations are without any reward&#8230;then finally with thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-northern-hawk-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}