{"id":54920,"date":"2017-03-08T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=54920"},"modified":"2017-03-02T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T15:35:04","slug":"weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2017\/03\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wildlife at the Garden: After the Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller; color: #808080;\"><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 at the right time and the right place for this one. After snapping a number of photos, I noticed a trace of blood on the hawk&#8217;s feet, which would explain why it sat for so long. After successfully capturing prey, hawks often rest on a perch, grooming themselves and sometimes standing on one foot, as you can see here.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?attachment_id=54921\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-54921\"><img data-attachment-id=\"54921\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2017\/03\/wildlife\/weekly-wildlife-at-the-garden-2\/attachment\/img_7217b\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" 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 SX60 HS&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1488187512&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;247&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cooper&#8217;s Hawk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b-1024x768.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-54921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cooper's Hawk\" width=\"571\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cooper&#8217;s Hawk (<i>Accipiter cooperii<\/i>) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/thain-family-forest\/index.php\">Thain Family Forest<\/a> \u2013 Photo by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cooper&#8217;s Hawk, fresh from a kill, grooms itself on a perch in the Thain Family Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":54921,"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":[2959,1075,1360,4542,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_7217b.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-ehO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54920"}],"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=54920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54923,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54920\/revisions\/54923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}