{"id":2982,"date":"2023-03-21T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2982"},"modified":"2023-03-21T07:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T12:55:55","slug":"one-for-the-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/03\/21\/one-for-the-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"One for the History Books"},"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\/173485723\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saint Patrick\u2019s Day Surprise and hard to believe\u2026yes, a pair of Great Horned Owlets.<br \/>\nGreat Horned Owls are the earliest of nesters being found on a nest mid-February and March.<\/p>\n<p>Incubation period is around 30-35 days\u2026the owlets will be out of the nest but remain in the nest tree around 6 weeks old<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nLike all young they are unable to hunt and rely on the adults to be feed them\u2026they do like rabbits among other things.<\/p>\n<p>From what I witnessed these owls are now able to fly\u2026though their landing skills look somewhat miscalculated and funny to watch.<br \/>\nMy best guesstimate would be the eggs had been laid in mind December.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure this early nesting will be a Manitoba record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Patrick\u2019s Day Surprise and hard to believe\u2026yes, a pair of Great Horned Owlets. Great Horned Owls are the earliest of nesters being found on a nest mid-February and March. Incubation period is around 30-35 days\u2026the owlets will be out of the nest but remain in the nest tree around 6 weeks old . Like [&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-2982","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\/2982"}],"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=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}