{"id":5153,"date":"2010-04-09T19:13:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T02:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2010-04-09T19:13:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T02:13:33","slug":"patriotic-red-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/?p=5153","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic Red-Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize until I came upon this photo today, that I have a minor theme in my image archives: birds posing with flags. This is the first bird-patriot picture to creep into the <i>Today&#8217;s Photo<\/i> feature.<\/p>\n<p>This juvenile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Red-Tailed_Hawk\/id\">Red-tailed Hawk<\/a> was one of two hawks, broadcasting their calls across Civic Center in San Francisco. Either people didn&#8217;t recognize the cry of a Red-tail, or they&#8217;re so jaded to urban predators, or maybe just urban noises, no one even looked up except for us. When we did, we saw an adult doing twirls above the plaza &#8212; and this juvenile commandeering this tower, swooping occasionally over the domain below.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5154\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Red-Tail-Flag.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Red-Tail-Flag.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk in San Francisco\" title=\"Red-Tail Flag\" width=\"680\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Red-Tail-Flag-200x158.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Red-Tail-Flag-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Red-Tail-Flag-400x316.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Red-Tail-Flag-600x475.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Red-Tail-Flag.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk - San Francisco Civic Center - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><b>Close-up view of this juvie:<\/b><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_5155\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Hawk-Closeup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Hawk-Closeup.jpg\" alt=\"Juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk\" title=\"Hawk Closeup\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5155\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Closeup of Juvenile Hawk - \u00a9ingridtaylar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Photo:<\/i><\/b> This was shot with my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panasonic.net\/avc\/lumix\/compact\/fz50\/index.html\">Panasonic FZ50<\/a> (super-zoom) at full extension.  The FZ50 is easy to carry &#8212; super light &#8212; so sometimes I&#8217;ll throw it in my bag instead of my dSLR. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize until I came upon this photo today, that I have a minor theme in my image archives: birds posing with flags. This is the first bird-patriot picture to creep into the <i>Today&#8217;s Photo<\/i> feature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreequark.com\/2010\/04\/patriotic-red-tail\/\">[see the full-size image &#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[103,157],"class_list":["post-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-raptors","tag-urban-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","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=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ingridtaylar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}