{"id":14997,"date":"2015-09-16T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T22:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14997"},"modified":"2015-09-16T15:02:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T22:02:32","slug":"take-to-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14997","title":{"rendered":"Take to the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to an overflight by a Red-tailed Hawk, Red-winged Blackbirds took to the air. My guess is that they did so because a perched bird is an easy target, whereas a\u00a0small airborne bird is a difficult capture. The smaller bird is more manoeuvrable than the hawk. Seemingly realizing the difficulty, the hawk left the blackbirds alone.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14998\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/redtailedhawk_blackbirds150915s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In response to an overflight by a Red-tailed Hawk, Red-winged Blackbirds took to the air. My guess is that they did so because a perched bird is an easy target, whereas a\u00a0small airborne bird is a difficult capture. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14997\">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-14997","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\/14997","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=14997"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15011,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997\/revisions\/15011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}