{"id":29733,"date":"2012-12-30T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnandrewwright.com\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:34:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:34:39","slug":"drama-at-oe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/drama-at-oe\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama at Oe"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning at Oe I observed a Peregrine Falcon consistently attack an Eurasian Bittern.<\/p>\n

Although the falcon gained height and swooped down on a few occasions, it never actually “hit” the bittern – it kept breaking off its attack just before striking.<\/p>\n

I can only surmise that as it had lost the advantage of surprise, the falcon realised it couldn’t get a killing strike on the bittern and could therefore be in trouble itself if it continued to attack – or perhaps the bittern’s ruffled feathers and bold actions put it off.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I have witnessed on numerous occasions Peregrines hunting prey but coming up short even though you would expect them to make a kill.<\/p>\n

In any event, the bittern survived to live another day and the falcon flew off elsewhere to try to be more successful in replenishing energy lost on futile missions!<\/p>\n

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This morning at Oe I observed a Peregrine Falcon consistently attack an Eurasian Bittern. Although the falcon gained height and swooped down on a few occasions, it never actually “hit” the bittern – it kept breaking off its attack just before striking. I can only surmise that as it had lost the advantage of surprise, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2192660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/peregrine-falcon-eurasian-bittern-4907-1024x682.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2621,7775,2622,224,1028],"class_list":["post-29733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bittern","tag-falcon","tag-john","tag-peregrine-falcon","tag-ruff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}