{"id":27387,"date":"2019-09-16T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27387"},"modified":"2019-09-16T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T00:25:29","slug":"coopers-hawk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27387","title":{"rendered":"Cooper&#8217;s Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly fun to spot a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk along the lakeshore, for I only get to see it about once a year. This is a raptor that mainly preys upon smaller birds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, there is something rather odd about my sightings:\u00a0 I have only ever seen immature Cooper&#8217;s Hawks. Where are the adults?<\/p>\n<p>A immature Cooper&#8217;s Hawk sits atop a utility pole.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27388\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/coopershawk190916as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Quit watching me while I practice my dance routines.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27389\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/coopershawk190916bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It is certainly fun to spot a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk along the lakeshore, for I only get to see it about once a year. This is a raptor that mainly preys upon smaller birds.\u00a0 Yet, there is something rather odd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27387\">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-27387","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\/27387","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=27387"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27397,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27387\/revisions\/27397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}