{"id":218,"date":"2015-02-28T15:57:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2015-02-28T16:56:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T00:56:32","slug":"a-hawk-a-heron-and-some-little-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"A hawk, a heron, and some little birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another sunny February morning here in Seattle, and the last day of February at that. An appointment this morning meant I couldn’t go far, so off I went to Discovery Park, on the north end this time. I was almost immediately greeted by a number of dark-eyed juncos and American robins browsing nearby, and even several Bewick’s wrens singing.<\/p>\n

\"Dark-eyed<\/a>

Dark-eyed junco<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Bewick's<\/a>

Bewick’s wren<\/p><\/div>\n

Not far away, I saw the flash of orange wings indicative of Northern flickers. There were several, but they’re skittish, so I only was able to get a picture of this one:<\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/a>

Northern flicker (adult male)<\/p><\/div>\n

Up the trail a bit further, a small mixed flock of black-capped chickadees, chestnut-backed chickadees, dark-eyed junco, and pine siskin browsed for food.<\/p>\n

\"Black-capped<\/a>

Black-capped chickadee<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pine<\/a>

Pine siskin<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dark-eyed<\/a>

Dark-eyed junco in the crook of a tree<\/p><\/div>\n

Heading out of the park, however, I got a real treat: a juvenile red-tailed hawk. I’m guessing female due to the large size, at first glance I thought I was seeing one of the resident great-horned owls. She knew I saw her but stuck around for a bunch of pictures, moving perches a few times.<\/p>\n

\"Red-tailed<\/a>

Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile, probably female)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Looking<\/a>

Looking below for prey<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Red-tailed<\/a>

Red-tailed Hawk (juvenile, probably female) closer up<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

Later in the day I stopped at the Ballard Locks to see if I could find the local belted kingfisher. I didn’t, but did find a squirrel with its head in a hole:<\/p>\n

\"Squirrel<\/a>

Squirrel butt<\/p><\/div>\n

…and a very chill and cooperative great blue heron, sunning itself on a low-hanging branch:<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a>

Great blue heron<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Great<\/a>

Great blue heron<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Great<\/a>

Great blue heron portrait<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another sunny February morning here in Seattle, and the last day of February at that. An appointment this morning meant I couldn’t go far, so off I went to Discovery Park, on the north end this time. I was almost immediately greeted by a number of dark-eyed juncos and American robins browsing nearby, and even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birding","category-photography","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/20150228-_DSC0152.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jxM5-3w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wing-on-wing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}