{"id":3002,"date":"2023-04-20T07:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2023-04-20T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:23:08","slug":"standing-guard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/04\/20\/standing-guard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Guard"},"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\/173553649\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Great Horned Owl found close to the nest site\u2026standing guard and watching for any intruders like Crows that seem too often mob a nest.<br \/>\nFrom what I\u2019ve witnessed\u2026when a nest is being mobbed the male will come in and try and drawn the attention to himself so that the Crows will follow him away from the nest.<br \/>\nDuring this the female becomes very vocal and loud hooting can easily be heard anywhere in the bush.<\/p>\n<p>He now has his work cut out as there appears to be three hungry owlets to feed\u2026along with Mama Owl.<br \/>\nTheir diet consists mainly of rabbits and squirrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Great Horned Owl found close to the nest site\u2026standing guard and watching for any intruders like Crows that seem too often mob a nest. From what I\u2019ve witnessed\u2026when a nest is being mobbed the male will come in and try and drawn the attention to himself so that the Crows will follow him away [&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-3002","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\/3002"}],"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=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3003,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}