{"id":2854,"date":"2022-09-07T09:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2022-09-07T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:39:27","slug":"horns-or-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/horns-or-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Horns or Ears"},"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\/172949549\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great Horned Owls are easily identified by the tufts of fine feathers that resemble horns or ears\u2026hence the name \u201cHorned Owl\u201d<br \/>\nThese tufts that folks refer to as horns\/ears are used in territorial display and defending against predators\u2026tufts become more visible when there are intruders.<br \/>\nThe owlets tufts have yet to form and will do so as it matures\u2026they may not yet have the horns but they do have loud voices.<br \/>\nSuch was the case on this visit with two of the owlets belting out loud screams\u2026there\u2019s an old saying \u201cSqueaky Wheel Gets the Grease\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the Nature World perhaps the Screaming Owlet Gets the Food\u2026just sayin !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Horned Owls are easily identified by the tufts of fine feathers that resemble horns or ears\u2026hence the name \u201cHorned Owl\u201d These tufts that folks refer to as horns\/ears are used in territorial display and defending against predators\u2026tufts become more visible when there are intruders. The owlets tufts have yet to form and will do [&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-2854","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\/2854"}],"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=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}