{"id":4607,"date":"2019-10-01T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2019-10-01T22:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T02:43:11","slug":"close-encounters-of-the-avian-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounters of the Avian Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This afternoon I took a break from editing the photos I made on our recent trip and took a walk up the un-maintained section of Brimstone Corner Road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I started down the hill towards the Hancock border, I flushed a red-tailed hawk from the middle of the road maybe twenty or thirty feet in front of me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initially, the bird flew up to a perch in a tree at the edge of the road where it paused for only ten or fifteen seconds &#8212; long enough for me to see the chipmunk in its talons &#8212; before flying out of sight in the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It must have just caught the prey since, despite a careful look, I did not find any evidence of chipmunk &#8220;pieces&#8221; on the road; not even a tuft of fur\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No photos&#8230; I was not carrying my camera. Besides, it all happened too fast for framing a photograph. Sometimes it is best to just watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Close encounters with animals usually only seen at a distance are always special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon I took a break from editing the photos I made on our recent trip and took a walk up the un-maintained section of Brimstone Corner Road. As I started down the hill towards the Hancock border, I flushed a red-tailed hawk from the middle of the road maybe twenty or thirty feet in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,116,92,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-early-fall","category-monadnock-region","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gorga.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}