{"id":2949,"date":"2023-01-24T09:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T15:22:37","slug":"patient-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/01\/24\/patient-determined\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient &#038; Determined"},"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\/173334664\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another day another Northern Hawk Owl\u2026only problem it was as I say a \u201cBirders Delight\u201d.<br \/>\nMeaning that it was close enough to recognize but pointless to photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing full well that at some point the owl would become active\u2026just how longer I would have to wait was the question.<br \/>\nSeconds turned into minutes\u2026minutes into hours but I was determined as I had nowhere to be.<br \/>\nAround the three hour mark my patience paid off as the owl became active\u2026moving closer as it tested out different trees from which to hunt.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line\u20263 plus hours of patients and determination paid off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day another Northern Hawk Owl\u2026only problem it was as I say a \u201cBirders Delight\u201d. Meaning that it was close enough to recognize but pointless to photograph. Knowing full well that at some point the owl would become active\u2026just how longer I would have to wait was the question. Seconds turned into minutes\u2026minutes into hours [&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":[27],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-owls","tag-northern-hawk-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949"}],"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=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}