{"id":2889,"date":"2022-10-24T07:28:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2022-10-24T07:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:28:46","slug":"masters-in-camouflage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2022\/10\/24\/masters-in-camouflage\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters in Camouflage"},"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\/173093872\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recent visit to a park where a number of Wood Ducks had been seen was a delight\u2026then the day got even better with a Eastern Screech Owl.<br \/>\nThese are one of our smallest owls that are about 8 in. and fairly common\u2026if you can spot them. They are a true master when it comes to camouflage.<br \/>\nScreech Owls are nocturnal and spend their day roosting in a cavity\u2026if you\u2019re lucky they may open there eyes for short periods.<\/p>\n<p>Their diet consists of small rodents that they hunt for at night. Being a small owl their calls are a low, soft series of quavering whistles ( if that makes any sense ) unlike the Booming Hoot of a Great Horned Owl.<\/p>\n<p>You just never know what you\u2019re going to stumble across when out-n-about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent visit to a park where a number of Wood Ducks had been seen was a delight\u2026then the day got even better with a Eastern Screech Owl. These are one of our smallest owls that are about 8 in. and fairly common\u2026if you can spot them. They are a true master when it comes 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":[156],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-eastern-screech-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889"}],"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=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}