{"id":54173,"date":"2016-10-19T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=54173"},"modified":"2016-10-19T12:12:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:12:49","slug":"weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-raptor-in-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/10\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-raptor-in-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wildlife at the Garden: Raptor in Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/tag\/patricia-gonzalez\">Patricia Gonzalez<\/a> is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> Visitor Services Attendant and avid wildlife photographer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\" \/>\n<p>I was on my break and headed to the Watson Building when I spotted this young Red-tail just off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/rock-garden\/index.php\">Rock Garden<\/a>. It was very much on the hunt and scanning some nearby squirrels. It didn&#8217;t seem to mind my presence one bit, which made for a most excellent photo opportunity. You can see more in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z9kHkT9nYk8\">this video<\/a> I shot of the encounter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/10\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-raptor-in-profile\/attachment\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54174\"><img data-attachment-id=\"54174\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2016\/10\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-raptor-in-profile\/attachment\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,783\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Red-tailed Hawk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k-300x196.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k-1024x668.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-54174 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k-1024x668.jpg\" alt=\"Red-tailed Hawk\" width=\"570\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Red-tailed Hawk near the Rock Garden \u2013 Photo by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scanning for prey, a Red-tailed Hawk near the Rock Garden pays little notice to a passing wildlife photographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":54174,"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":[34],"tags":[1360,3978,205,4627,4542],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/29722007292_2100e553d0_k.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-e5L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54173"}],"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=54173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54176,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54173\/revisions\/54176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}