{"id":24301,"date":"2012-05-31T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=24301"},"modified":"2012-05-31T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T13:49:10","slug":"morning-eye-candy-thursday-on-the-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/05\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-thursday-on-the-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Thursday on the Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look to have a bird-brained afternoon as we set aside this beautiful Thursday to celebrate the treetop tweeters of <a title=\"The New York Botanical Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">The New York Botanical Garden<\/a>! We&#8217;re flora people, yes, but there&#8217;s a majesty (and, at times, comedy) to the diverse fauna of the Garden. Nothing speaks of elegance and grace quite like a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk fumbling its lunch all over <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/12\/around-the-garden\/giants-of-the-allee\/\">Tulip Tree All\u00e9e<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking to get better acquainted with our feathered friends, stop by on Saturday mornings for the weekly Bird Walk with resident expert Debbie Becker! Binoculars, cameras, and gasps of awe welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gonzalez-Red-Tailed.jpeg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"24318\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/05\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-thursday-on-the-wing\/attachment\/gonzalez-red-tailed\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gonzalez-Red-Tailed.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Red-tailed Hawk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gonzalez-Red-Tailed-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gonzalez-Red-Tailed.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24318\" title=\"Red-tailed Hawk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gonzalez-Red-Tailed.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gonzalez-Red-Tailed.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gonzalez-Red-Tailed-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Pat Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today goes to the birds! Hawks, warblers, owls and egrets&#8211;we&#8217;re celebrating all the feathered friends of the Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":24318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146,34],"tags":[172,1512,1337,205,4619],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gonzalez-Red-Tailed.jpeg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-6jX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24427,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24301\/revisions\/24427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}