{"id":1438,"date":"2012-07-24T21:46:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2012-07-24T21:46:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T15:46:41","slug":"the-raptors-of-custer-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/24\/the-raptors-of-custer-county\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raptors of Custer County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So living in a high-desert mountain valley, I see a ton of raptors on the telephone poles and fence posts as I drive to and from town. Most of the time they&#8217;re easily identified (or guessed) as Red-Tailed Hawks, since Red-Tails are essentially the most common. Such as this one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Redtailed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1439\" title=\"Redtailed\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Redtailed-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But many, many other species liven up the skies: Golden Eagles, Bald Eagles, Northern Goshawks (my favorite: one flew through my yard the other day), American Kestrels, Rough-Legged Hawks, Cooper&#8217;s Hawks, Prairie Falcons, and many more. Yesterday I snapped the photo below, and it&#8217;s either a Peregrine Falcon or a Swainson&#8217;s Hawk. The breast bib looks like a Swainson&#8217;s, but its size was more like a Peregrine Falcon, and the face looked close to a Peregrine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Swainsons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1440\" title=\"Swainsons\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Swainsons-828x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So living in a high-desert mountain valley, I see a ton of raptors on the telephone poles and fence posts as I drive to and from town. Most of the time they&#8217;re easily identified (or guessed) as Red-Tailed Hawks, since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/24\/the-raptors-of-custer-county\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","category-the-west","tag-birding"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}