{"id":1897344,"date":"2018-03-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=2e05820e37abca9d15ca46b79b3356a0"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:29:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:29:45","slug":"sparrowhawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/sparrowhawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparrowhawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The temperature reached a barmy +6C today (although is still below zero at night) and at Bygd\u00f8y on south facing slopes there was actually snow free ground at the base of trees \u2013 so there is hope!<\/p>\n

No new birds have discovered this though as the cold northerly winds will put off any thoughts of migration for a while yet. The sun is still shining though so photo opportunities are good when they arise.<\/p>\n

Today I had a young Sparrowhawk at close range which resulted in a few photos worthy of sharing.<\/p>\n

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the brown plumage shows this bird to be a 2cy (born last year) and from size and structue I would say it was a male<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The temperature reached a barmy +6C today (although is still below zero at night) and at Bygd\u00f8y on south facing slopes there was actually snow free ground at the base of trees \u2013 so there is hope! No new birds have discovered this though as the cold northerly winds will put off any thoughts of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":2148926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[741],"class_list":["post-1897344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-sparrowhawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897344","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\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}