{"id":2842,"date":"2022-08-11T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2022-08-11T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:01:10","slug":"something-un-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/08\/11\/something-un-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Un-Expected"},"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\/172865505\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You wouldn\u2019t expect to find much of interest in a small residential park\u2026yet this rather small treed area had become home for Great Horned Owls.<br \/>\nThe path that runs through the park is used by cyclists, joggers and folks walking the dog.<\/p>\n<p>When the owls would be considering a nest site in late winter to early spring there wouldn\u2019t have been near the human traffic in the area. Still they adapted to the surroundings and have gone on to have three owlets to feed\u2026which have now fledged.<br \/>\nI\u2019m sure the rabbit population has declined in the area since they have taken up residence.<\/p>\n<p>Being nocturnal the adults would normally be active dusk to dawn\u2026but with 3 owlets to keep track of Mrs. Great Horned was on high alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wouldn\u2019t expect to find much of interest in a small residential park\u2026yet this rather small treed area had become home for Great Horned Owls. The path that runs through the park is used by cyclists, joggers and folks walking the dog. When the owls would be considering a nest site in late winter to [&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":[24],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-great-horned-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842"}],"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=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}