{"id":2716,"date":"2009-09-15T22:37:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2009-09-15T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T05:37:10","slug":"secret-digs-of-the-great-horned-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"Secret Digs of the Great Horned Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five people must have passed him in the span of an hour. And no one noticed. We were heading back after a short trek in Strawberry Canyon (Berkeley) when I saw something in my periphery. That&#8217;s almost always how it is. A subconscious scan picks up a\u00a0shape\u00a0out of place. It&#8217;s often how I&#8217;ve come upon injured animals. Something stands out in the visual spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>This anomaly was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/great_horned_owl\/id\">Great Horned Owl<\/a> &#8212; perched in stillness just off the fire road. Once we stopped, hikers and runners noticed him, too. I put down my camera after these shots and stood with everyone else in silence, watching the spectacular and nonchalant display of this owl who almost wasn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear the call of a Great Horned Owl at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Great_Horned_Owl\/sounds\">Cornell All About Birds site<\/a>. Also listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Mourning_Dove\/sounds\">Mourning Dove call<\/a> to contrast the two. People often confuse the sounds of owls and doves.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Great Owl Perceptions by ingridtaylar, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taylar\/3836213116\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2628\/3836213116_e530192643_b.jpg\" alt=\"Great Horned Owl\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Horned Owl &#8211; \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Great Owl Perceptions by ingridtaylar, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/taylar\/3835419557\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2456\/3835419557_61bc2c77e4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Great Horned Owl\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great Horned Owl &#8211; \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos of a Great Horned Owl perched in Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[304],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-owls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}