{"id":2620,"date":"2021-10-05T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2021-10-05T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T12:49:52","slug":"morning-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2021\/10\/05\/morning-merlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Merlin"},"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\/172022842\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final day at the summer place and one last trip out to see what could be found before closing up for the winter. Being somewhat surprised to find a Merlin along the shores of Lake Winnipeg.<br \/>\nMerlin\u2019s are one of the smaller members of the Falcon Family being roughly 10-12 in. They are not nest builders and usually use a Crow\u2019s nest from a previous year and prefer a nest in pine trees.<br \/>\nHigh hopes that next spring they will choose the nest in our pine where Crow\u2019s nested this year\u2026will have to wait and see.<br \/>\nTheir main diet consists of small birds\u2026 since we have an abundance of sparrows the pickings would be good.<\/p>\n<p>I always refer to Merlin\u2019s as Peregrine Wanna Be\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final day at the summer place and one last trip out to see what could be found before closing up for the winter. Being somewhat surprised to find a Merlin along the shores of Lake Winnipeg. Merlin\u2019s are one of the smaller members of the Falcon Family being roughly 10-12 in. They are not [&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],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-of-prey","tag-merlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620"}],"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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}