{"id":3146,"date":"2023-11-17T07:42:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2023-11-17T07:42:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T13:42:50","slug":"first-winter-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/11\/17\/first-winter-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"First Winter Owl"},"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\/174138925\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it doesn\u2019t really seem like Winter\u2026my First sighting of the season is a Northern Hawk Owl.<br \/>\nInteresting\u2026would have expected to find a Snowy before a Hawk Owl.<\/p>\n<p>From Spring through Fall they are in the Boreal Forest\u2026come Winter can be found in more open areas and even have spent the Winter within the City.<\/p>\n<p>Hawk Owls have both excellent sight and hearing and tend to hunt in the daytime\u2026with their main food source being voles. Most commonly seen perched on tree tops which provides a good vantage point to hunt from.<\/p>\n<p>They are cavity nesters\u2026using woodpecker holes or tree hollows and old broken tree trunks.<br \/>\nLike other owls the female being larger than the male\u2026they range between 14 to 16 inches in size.<br \/>\nOther than size they look very much alike\u2026with no color difference.<\/p>\n<p>Great seeing this Hawk Owl\u2026unfortunately the location is less than ideal.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t believe the owl would consider moving to another area even if I asked him\/her nicely\u2026I\u2019ll take what Mother Nature provides.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers !<br \/>\nDennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it doesn\u2019t really seem like Winter\u2026my First sighting of the season is a Northern Hawk Owl. Interesting\u2026would have expected to find a Snowy before a Hawk Owl. From Spring through Fall they are in the Boreal Forest\u2026come Winter can be found in more open areas and even have spent the Winter within the City. [&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-3146","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\/3146"}],"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=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}