{"id":216,"date":"2009-04-01T04:15:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T04:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/bird-of-the-week-red-tailed-hawk\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T04:15:37","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T04:15:37","slug":"bird-of-the-week-red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/bird-of-the-week-red-tailed-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird of the week: Red-tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Red-tailed_Hawk.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"media\/rth.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"322\" alt=\"The Red-tailed hawk\" class=\"illustration\" \/><\/a>The Red-tailed Hawk is one of the most common birds of prey in this part of North America. It&#8217;s a most beautiful animal, whilst also being a seriously impressive hunter. We regularly see these guys slowly gliding in circles, high above most of the &#8220;common&#8221; birds, or perched high by the side of motorways. In either location they clearly scare the local avian population.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/sln.fi.edu\/\">The Franklin Institute<\/a> in Philadelphia has been lucky enough to have a nest of Hawks established by one of its windows. Being a bunch of clever and righteous dudes, the museum not only managed to get a carpenter to improve the stability of the nest, but they also created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.fi.edu\/hawknest.php\">24\/7 Hawkcam<\/a> that provides a wonderful window into the lives of baby Hawks. The best bit is that the eggs haven&#8217;t hatched yet so if you keep your wits about you, you may get to watch them fledge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red-tailed Hawk is one of the most common birds of prey in this part of North America. It&#8217;s a most beautiful animal, whilst also being a seriously impressive hunter. We regularly see these guys slowly gliding in circles, high above most of the &#8220;common&#8221; birds, or perched high by the side of motorways. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}