{"id":154348,"date":"2015-03-30T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=6fad56a43bd810bdfff866f61b621e9c"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:53:14","slug":"crested-caracara-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/crested-caracara-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Crested Caracara Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I drove out to Brumley Rd looking for birds to add to my year list.<\/p>\n<p>Top on my list were Summer Tanager (missed), Red-eyed Vireo (found), and Yellow-throated Vireo (found).<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps the best moment of the morning was when this Crested Caracara flew up on a fence post. It was so close, I pretty much could only get the whole bird in the frame when its head was facing to the left.<\/p>\n<p>So this is just about a full frame shot. I cropped a little bit of the barbed wire from the bottom of the frame, but that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 590px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-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:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=75&amp;resize=75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=100&amp;resize=100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=150&amp;resize=150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=240&amp;resize=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=320&amp;resize=320&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=500&amp;resize=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=640&amp;resize=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=800&amp;resize=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1024&amp;resize=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1280&amp;resize=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1&amp;w=1600&amp;resize=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" class=\"aligncenter\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Crested Caracara<\/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>This morning I drove out to Brumley Rd looking for birds to add to my year list. Top on my list were Summer Tanager (missed), Red-eyed Vireo (found), and Yellow-throated Vireo (found). But perhaps the best moment of the morning was when this Crested Caracara flew up on a fence post. It was so close, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2195974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/scottsimmons.smugmug.com\/DailyShoots\/2015\/03-17\/i-Hh7kBGt\/1\/L\/_MG_8042-L.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2101,2465],"class_list":["post-154348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-crested-caracara","tag-scott-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154348","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=154348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}