{"id":11568,"date":"2014-09-08T08:31:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2014-09-08T08:31:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:31:26","slug":"coopers-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11568","title":{"rendered":"Cooper&#8217;s Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When the bird darted across my path, I guessed it was\u00a0a\u00a0Merlin. However, a Merlin\u00a0is smaller and prefers forest clearings to the denser brush where this bird was hunting. This was\u00a0a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk, albeit an immature one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The infrequent local sightings of Cooper&#8217;s Hawks are usually made in late summer and early fall when hawks are migrating south for the winter. There are three pictures of this bird, below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11573\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/coopershawk140907as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11572\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/coopershawk140907cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11574\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/coopershawk140907bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When the bird darted across my path, I guessed it was\u00a0a\u00a0Merlin. However, a Merlin\u00a0is smaller and prefers forest clearings to the denser brush where this bird was hunting. This was\u00a0a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk, albeit an immature one.\u00a0 The infrequent local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11581,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions\/11581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}