{"id":821945,"date":"2016-03-08T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=aa25117acc4283e203480c90a00ec86f"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:09","slug":"restless-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/restless-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Restless Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw this immature red-tailed hawk last week in Central Park. It was inspecting tree holes.<\/p>\n

I think it was inspired by the spring weather to think about making a nest. It picked up sticks and carried them, put them down again.<\/p>\n

When I left the hawk it was standing with its foot on a newly collected stick, almost ready to start building.<\/p>\n

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I saw this immature red-tailed hawk last week in Central Park.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It was inspecting tree holes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I think it was inspired by the spring weather to think about making a nest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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It picked up sticks and carried them, put them down again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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When I left the hawk it was standing with its foot on a newly collected stick — almost ready to start building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I saw this immature red-tailed hawk last week in Central Park. It was inspecting tree holes. I think it was inspired by the spring weather to think about making a nest. It picked up sticks and carried them, put them down again. When I left the hawk it was standing with its foot on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2196407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Wrp51zv9Vs8\/VtOeFKm6bSI\/AAAAAAAAFoY\/BydzVV244k8\/s1600\/1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[1008],"class_list":["post-821945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-red-tailed-hawk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821945","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}