{"id":2598,"date":"2021-08-17T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2021-08-17T09:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:09:31","slug":"look-mom-i-can-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2021\/08\/17\/look-mom-i-can-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Mom I Can Fly"},"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\/171887360\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It always amazes me how quickly juveniles master flight. After a few days of Wing Flapping at a nest\u2026they take that \u201cFirst Flight\u201d. The flights are not perfect and they can look very awkward as they figure out what the wings are intended for.<\/p>\n<p>The first flights are usually short soon becoming longer in duration. Still returning to the nest where the adults provide a meal as they still have to learn how to hunt for themselves.<br \/>\nAs the wings become stronger they will begin doing mock hunting manoeuvres in open areas\u2026then finally graduate to the real thing on open water and live fish.<\/p>\n<p>An early morning visit finds this young Osprey flying like a Pro\u2026and give him\/her a 10 out of 10 on the score card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always amazes me how quickly juveniles master flight. After a few days of Wing Flapping at a nest\u2026they take that \u201cFirst Flight\u201d. The flights are not perfect and they can look very awkward as they figure out what the wings are intended for. The first flights are usually short soon becoming longer in duration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,9],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-of-prey","category-mb-birds","tag-osprey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"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=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}