{"id":2864,"date":"2022-10-06T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:23:53","slug":"looks-are-deceiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/looks-are-deceiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks are Deceiving"},"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\/173039183\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Always wonderful to encounter a Great Horned Owl. Never the less one has to keep in mind that these owls have been known to become very aggressive  towards humans in order to defend their offspring.<br \/>\nGreat Horned Owls can be found in residential areas, city parks, stands of trees, small woodlots where they are able to hunt.<br \/>\nThey are fierce predators with great talon strength (not something you want to mess with) that can take large prey like rabbits\u2026even raptors like Peregrines aren\u2019t always safe.<br \/>\nNo need for these owls to migrate as they are covered in extremely soft feathers that provides them with insulation for our cold winter weather\u2026as well these soft feathers help them fly very quietly in pursuit of prey.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s amazing how they have adapted\u2026with the ability to fly through thick bush\/trees without a sound being made.<br \/>\nAnd no I\u2019ve never had the pleasure of being attacked by a Great Horned Owl\u2026would like to keep it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always wonderful to encounter a Great Horned Owl. Never the less one has to keep in mind that these owls have been known to become very aggressive towards humans in order to defend their offspring. Great Horned Owls can be found in residential areas, city parks, stands of trees, small woodlots where they are able [&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-2864","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\/2864"}],"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=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}