{"id":140192,"date":"2015-01-11T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=7b92af7b021e45887f6bb2c0e1abe3cd"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:49:19","slug":"osprey-with-gar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/osprey-with-gar\/","title":{"rendered":"Osprey with Gar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month at Overlook Park I saw an Osprey fly by. This happens so frequently that I usually don&#8217;t bother to take a photo.<\/p>\n<p>However, this time looked a little different. I put my binoculars on the bird and noticed that it was carrying a gar.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine that this is good eating, but I suppose when you&#8217;re an Osprey, you eat what you catch.<\/p>\n<p>The fishermen at the park weren&#8217;t catching anything, so the Osprey was certainly having a better day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 590px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"aligncenter\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2014\/11-29\/i-J947KBf\/1\/L\/_MG_0628-L.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Osprey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class='mb-center maxbutton-6-center'><span class='maxbutton-6-container mb-container'><a class=\"maxbutton-6 maxbutton maxbutton-subscribe-to-our-free-newsletter\" href=\"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/subscribe\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><span class='mb-text'>Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month at Overlook Park I saw an Osprey fly by. This happens so frequently that I usually don&#8217;t bother to take a photo. However, this time looked a little different. I put my binoculars on the bird and noticed that it was carrying a gar. I can&#8217;t imagine that this is good eating, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2148409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[608,2465],"class_list":["post-140192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-osprey","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}