{"id":1187,"date":"2011-05-18T02:19:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T02:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2011-05-18T19:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:34:59","slug":"1187","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"CAVE CREEK, ARIZONA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cave Creek is nestled in the Chirichua Mountains in the South East corner of Arizona. It has received international recognition as a birding paradise. Here I was to encounter a few regional specialties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FINAL-PANORAMA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1202\" title=\"FINAL PANORAMA\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FINAL-PANORAMA-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FINAL-PANORAMA-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/FINAL-PANORAMA-1024x420.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chirichua Mountains. Last stronghold of Geronimo and the Apache.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1189\" title=\"Juniper Titmouse\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse-300x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse-1024x934.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse.jpg 1185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Juniper Titmouse<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1190\" title=\"Juniper Titmouse\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse1-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse1-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse1-1024x860.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Juniper-Titmouse1.jpg 1371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lazuli Bunting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/barn-owl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1198\" title=\"barn owl\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/barn-owl-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/barn-owl-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/barn-owl-1024x700.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barn Owl in flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1207\" title=\"zone tailed hawk\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk1-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk1-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk1-1024x479.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cave Creek Research Station<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1204\" title=\"zone tailed hawk\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk-1024x909.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/zone-tailed-hawk.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No sooner had we arrived at the Research Station than a Zone-tailed Hawk glided overhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cave Creek is nestled in the Chirichua Mountains in the South East corner of Arizona. It has received international recognition as a birding paradise. Here I was to encounter a few regional specialties. Chirichua Mountains. Last stronghold of Geronimo and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=1187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}