{"id":2999,"date":"2023-04-13T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2023-04-13T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T15:04:15","slug":"someones-handy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/04\/13\/someones-handy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone\u2019s Handy Work"},"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\/173537343\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve seen this before where someone has provided a nest for Great Horned Owls.<br \/>\nAs Owls don\u2019t do their own nest building and reply on other birds like Crows to do it for them.<\/p>\n<p>Since Crows build a new nest each season\u2026the old nest is there for the taking and will often be used by Great Horned Owls if in a suitable location.<br \/>\nThese nests after being used in a second year are usually unusable again and a new location would be required.<\/p>\n<p>Humans lend a helping hand by constructing nests for owls to use year after year\u2026such is the case at this location.<br \/>\nUnclear just how long the nest has been there\u2026but does appear to be very sturdy and should last a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve seen this before where someone has provided a nest for Great Horned Owls. As Owls don\u2019t do their own nest building and reply on other birds like Crows to do it for them. Since Crows build a new nest each season\u2026the old nest is there for the taking and will often be used by [&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-2999","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\/2999"}],"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=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}