{"id":2482,"date":"2021-02-04T07:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2021-02-04T07:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T13:23:53","slug":"plunge-and-a-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2021\/02\/04\/plunge-and-a-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Plunge and a Miss"},"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\/171389486\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Time passed as I sat patiently waiting for this Great Gray to make a move\u2026it was apparent that he (by size) was definitely in Hunt Mode and just a matter of time before he made a move.<br \/>\nWith prolonged staring on a fixed location then the sudden head jerk to another spot. He was simply zeroing in on prey beneath the snow.<br \/>\nSometimes they will fly out and make a sweeping pattern while focusing\u2026other times it\u2019s a straight downward plunge. All depending on where they located a possible meal.<br \/>\nThis one ended up closer to the road near the ditch but unfortunately come up empty. Another plunge and a miss in the endless search for food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time passed as I sat patiently waiting for this Great Gray to make a move\u2026it was apparent that he (by size) was definitely in Hunt Mode and just a matter of time before he made a move. With prolonged staring on a fixed location then the sudden head jerk to another spot. He was simply [&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":[102],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-great-gray-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482"}],"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=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}