{"id":12896,"date":"2015-03-12T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12896"},"modified":"2015-03-12T07:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T14:52:00","slug":"the-loop-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12896","title":{"rendered":"The loop defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why a Red-tailed Hawk would choose\u00a0to attack a sub-adult Bald Eagle is a mystery. The fight would be uneven as\u00a0the eagle is four times the weight of the hawk. Nevertheless, the hawk repeatedly dived at the eagle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The eagle&#8217;s final defence is shown as\u00a0a composite of four images. Each shot contains a pair of birds. The hawk descends on the diagonal from upper left to lower right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">1. The hawk dives on the eagle.<br \/>2. The eagle begins a\u00a0loop.<br \/>3. Now flying upside down, the\u00a0eagle displays its claws.<br \/>4. The eagle completes its loop and, with claws extended,\u00a0approaches the hawk from above.<\/p>\n<p>The hawk left with dispatch.<\/p>\n<p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;\u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; one &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; two &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; three &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;four<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12897\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/hawk_eagle150305s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Why a Red-tailed Hawk would choose\u00a0to attack a sub-adult Bald Eagle is a mystery. The fight would be uneven as\u00a0the eagle is four times the weight of the hawk. Nevertheless, the hawk repeatedly dived at the eagle.\u00a0 The eagle&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12896\">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-12896","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\/12896","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=12896"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12952,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896\/revisions\/12952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}