{"id":844433,"date":"2016-03-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=8b9144dbbf3b5aa53595bcab8004265c"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:04:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:04:28","slug":"stared-down-by-a-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/stared-down-by-a-merlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Stared Down By A Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went down to the shoreline this weekend looking for shorebirds but was stopped in my tracks when I came face to face with a Merlin.<\/p>\n

We stared each other down for at least a minute as we both sat perfectly still.<\/p>\n

No one was going to come between her and a meal. Not even a birder with a camera.<\/p>\n

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I went down to the shoreline this weekend looking for shorebirds but was stopped in my tracks when I came face to face with a Merlin.<\/p>\n

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We stared each other down for at least a minute as we both sat perfectly still.<\/p>\n

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No one was going to come between her and a meal. Not even a birder with a camera.<\/p>\n

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I went down to the shoreline this weekend looking for shorebirds but was stopped in my tracks when I came face to face with a Merlin. We stared each other down for at least a minute as we both sat perfectly still. No one was going to come between her and a meal. Not even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":2196436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--fro6F3CenQ\/VtOEnA2fxpI\/AAAAAAAAIvY\/zCimkxBXX90\/s640\/IMG_8730%2B%2528800x600%2529.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[8229,24],"class_list":["post-844433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-larry-nichols","tag-merlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844433","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\/1904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}