{"id":515,"date":"2016-11-12T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=515"},"modified":"2016-11-12T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:24:11","slug":"red-tailed-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Red Tailed Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/wp-content\/gallery\/gallery-16\/Hawk.jpg\" alt=\"Hawk\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rarely do I get this close to a Hawk without it flying away. This one seemed more curious than scared. I could wish it had been sitting on a fence post or tree but you take what you can get. At first glance I thought this was not a Red tail but after looking more closely I could see that though its chest is not as light as some it does have the distinctive darker vest and a look at my bird books confirmed that this has to be a Red tail.<\/p>\n<p>I did some heavy cropping and converted from horizontal to vertical. I may have gone a little too close on the turn wheel and its shadow. \u00a0I tried shooting vertical from the car blind but it just didn&#8217;t work too well and with wildlife you don&#8217;t have the luxury to mess around. I can&#8217;t tell you how many &#8220;Gone birds&#8221; I have photographed in my life. \u00a0Anyway, just a little vibrance and saturation and some sharpening for the final image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely do I get this close to a Hawk without it flying away. This one seemed more curious than scared. I could wish it had been sitting on a fence post or tree but you take what you can get. At first glance I thought this was not a Red tail but after looking more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/?p=515\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Tailed Hawk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-klamath-basin","category-nature","category-wildlife"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo15\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}