{"id":56583,"date":"2018-03-01T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?p=56583"},"modified":"2018-03-01T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T17:46:13","slug":"wildlife-garden-roadside-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2018\/03\/wildlife\/wildlife-garden-roadside-assistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife at the Garden: Roadside Assistance"},"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=\"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a> Visitor Services Attendant and avid wildlife photographer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr width=\"350\">\n<p>Some of my more interesting wildlife encounters happen in the mornings before my shift starts. I was recently walking the pathway between the top of Wamsler Rock and the fencing of the Native Plant Garden, when I spotted a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk perched on a rock further down. I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that it looked like it was waiting for a cab! I just had enough time to get one shot before it flew off.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2018\/03\/wildlife\/wildlife-garden-roadside-assistance\/attachment\/img_0879e\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56584\"><img data-attachment-id=\"56584\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2018\/03\/wildlife\/wildlife-garden-roadside-assistance\/attachment\/img_0879e\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"700,511\" 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;1519028834&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;247&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&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\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e-320x234.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e.jpg\" alt=\"Cooper's Hawk\" height=\"416\" width=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e-160x117.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e-320x234.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e-640x467.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e-480x350.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0879e-240x175.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A Cooper&#8217;s Hawk (<em><span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\">Accipiter cooperii<\/span><\/em>) in the Garden \u2013 Photo by Patricia Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my more interesting wildlife encounters happen in the mornings before my shift starts. I was recently walking the pathway between the top of Wamsler Rock and the fencing of the Native Plant Garden, when I spotted a Cooper&#8217;s Hawk perched on a rock further down.<\/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":[34],"tags":[2959,1360,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-eID","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56583"}],"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=56583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56589,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56583\/revisions\/56589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}