{"id":3153,"date":"2023-11-30T10:06:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2023-11-30T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:06:44","slug":"alert-and-focusedcontinued-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/11\/30\/alert-and-focusedcontinued-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Alert and Focused\u2026Continued part 3"},"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\/174169839\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From being perched in a tree focused on prey\u2026to successfully catching its prey was mere seconds.<br \/>\nI\u2019m sure the lack of snow makes this task much easier for the Hawk Owl\u2026do remember though that not every attempt is successful.<\/p>\n<p>The location that seems to be the hunting grounds is along a riverbank\u2026with a mix of trees, grass and open area.<br \/>\nWith thick bush just across the river which makes for an ideal location for caching food. Observations indicate that\u2019s exactly what the owl is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Catch a vole\/mouse\u2026them off across the river. Few minutes later\u2026returns and catches another vole\/mouse, back across the river.<br \/>\nThen after all that hard work shopping and filling the pantry\u2026he\u2019s hungry and ready for a meal.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s times he just simply sits high in a tree and watches the world go by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From being perched in a tree focused on prey\u2026to successfully catching its prey was mere seconds. I\u2019m sure the lack of snow makes this task much easier for the Hawk Owl\u2026do remember though that not every attempt is successful. The location that seems to be the hunting grounds is along a riverbank\u2026with a mix of [&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-3153","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\/3153"}],"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=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}