{"id":2731,"date":"2022-02-15T07:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2022-02-15T07:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:26:25","slug":"snowy-on-the-wing-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/02\/15\/snowy-on-the-wing-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowy on the Wing"},"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\/172351086\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As previously mentioned\u2026this winter there has been an abundance of Snowy Owls. I can\u2019t imagine the condition of some of the backroads that I would normally travel with all the Snow that we\u2019ve had.<br \/>\nStill there are many well-traveled roads that will be plowed like the location where this one was found.<\/p>\n<p>May recall the Snowy on a snag and using the grain bin as a blind\u2026well this was a continuation of what unfolded when he decided to finally take flight.<br \/>\nNote the talons\u2026this is the business end of things that all Birds of Prey use to catch prey\u2026much like large barbless fish hooks.<\/p>\n<p>Snowy Owls main diet consist of mice\/voles here in Manitoba and lemmings in the Tundra where the spend the summer and nest\u2026like all owls they have extremely good hearing and vision.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers !<br \/>\nDennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously mentioned\u2026this winter there has been an abundance of Snowy Owls. I can\u2019t imagine the condition of some of the backroads that I would normally travel with all the Snow that we\u2019ve had. Still there are many well-traveled roads that will be plowed like the location where this one was found. May recall the [&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":[50],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731"}],"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=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2732,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}