{"id":32073,"date":"2013-01-06T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=32073"},"modified":"2013-01-06T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T11:00:24","slug":"morning-eye-candy-a-game-of-hawk-and-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/01\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-a-game-of-hawk-and-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: A Game of Hawk and Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a lovely Tuesday morning with cloudless blue skies. I had about an hour and a half before my shift at the <a title=\"The New York Botanical Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> began, so I decided to try my luck spotting a young Red-tailed Hawk that I&#8217;d been photographing for weeks. I believe that this is one of <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/04\/wildlife\/rose-vince-back-to-school\/\">the three hawks born earlier this year<\/a> at the Fordham University nest. His mom is Rose, who I&#8217;ve been photographing since 2008. After walking the forest for about an hour, I exited near the Wetlands Trail, where I soon saw my friend. He tried his darnedest to take on a squirrel inside the twisted snag, which resulted in a hilarious game of hawk and mouse with the squirrel living to eat peanuts another day.<\/p>\n<p>I also had an opportunity to shoot a little video of the pair in action, <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_FUqrTmq0Is&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">which you can see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?attachment_id=32074\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32074\"><img data-attachment-id=\"32074\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/01\/wildlife\/morning-eye-candy-a-game-of-hawk-and-mouse\/attachment\/mec-red-tailed-hawk-dec-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Dec-11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1875\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot SX50 HS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1355232530&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;204.30601092896&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&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\/12\/MEC-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Dec-11-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Dec-11-1024x768.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32074\" alt=\"Red-tailed Hawk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Dec-11-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"567\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Dec-11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Dec-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Red-Tailed-Hawk-Dec-11.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Photo by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Gonzalez captures another stunning portrait of our local Red-tailed Hawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"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":[1512,1337,205,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-8lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32073"}],"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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32107,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32073\/revisions\/32107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}