{"id":20489,"date":"2017-05-16T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20489"},"modified":"2017-05-16T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T23:15:02","slug":"accipiter-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20489","title":{"rendered":"Accipiter redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four months ago, I <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19377\">posted\u00a0a picture of a hawk<\/a> in the genus accipiter and turned to my readers to help identify it. The sentiment was that is was a Sharp-shinned Hawk, rather than the larger Cooper&#8217;s Hawk (the other likely choice). The problem has occurred again, but this time I managed a much better picture or two.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the accipiter is a juvenile, and once again, I think it is a Sharp-shinned Hawk, but I can see conflicting evidence in that while the tail looks like the sharpie, the breast looks like a Cooper&#8217;s. So, I am at the mercy of those who are willing to comment.<\/p>\n<p>When spotted, the hawk was hunting from a fence post.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20491\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sharpshinnedhawk170515as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It soon flew off, and so allowed a different view.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20490\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/sharpshinnedhawk170515bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Four months ago, I posted\u00a0a picture of a hawk in the genus accipiter and turned to my readers to help identify it. The sentiment was that is was a Sharp-shinned Hawk, rather than the larger Cooper&#8217;s Hawk (the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20489\">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-20489","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\/20489","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=20489"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20500,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/revisions\/20500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}