{"id":4727,"date":"2012-04-09T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2012-04-29T06:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:57:25","slug":"hawk-payback-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4727","title":{"rendered":"Hawk payback time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have often seen a Red-tailed Hawk in the trees along a lakeside road. Sometimes, the\u00a0hawk is being\u00a0harassed\u00a0by\u00a0ravens; they try to drive it away. The usual response of the hawk is, indeed, to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I saw the hawk in the tree. From the tree, it switched to hunting while soaring. While aloft, it spotted a raven and started chasing it and actually attacked it in the air before the two of them passed out of sight.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that the hawk just decided that it was time to teach the raven a lesson.<\/p>\n<p>The Red-tailed Hawk was seen first as it hunted from a tree.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4728\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/redtailedhawk120408cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It then switched to hunting on the wing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4729\" onclick=\"return false\" ondblclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/redtailedhawk120408bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It then encountered a raven and gave chase, including attacking it in the air.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4730\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/redtailedhawkchase120408s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have often seen a Red-tailed Hawk in the trees along a lakeside road. Sometimes, the\u00a0hawk is being\u00a0harassed\u00a0by\u00a0ravens; they try to drive it away. The usual response of the hawk is, indeed, to leave. Yesterday, I saw the hawk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-4727","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\/4727","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=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4735,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}