{"id":5419,"date":"2015-11-24T21:15:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2015-11-24T21:26:28","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:26:28","slug":"amherst-island-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=5419","title":{"rendered":"AMHERST ISLAND TRIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the closure of the Owl Woods for the hunting season, \u00a0I joined good friend Paul to do a quick trip to Amherst Island in Lake Ontario.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We saw many hawks, mostly Rough-legged and Red-tailed in approximately equal numbers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Rough<\/a>ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK<\/strong><\/p>\n

Highlight of the day was the following launch sequence of a Red-tailed in bright sunshine and clear blue skies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"RED-TAILED<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RED-TAILED<\/a><\/p>\n

\"RED-TAILED<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"RED-TAILED\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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There was no snow on the Island as of yet, however we were hoping that we might spot the early arrival of a Snowy Owl. Right on cue, one made an appearance toward the end of the day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SNOWY<\/a>SNOWY OWL\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We continued to push our luck by staying until dusk, hoping to spot some Short-eared Owls which some locals had told us were active in certain areas. Unfortunately none made an appearance at the usual hangouts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to Paul for the outing and the company!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the closure of the Owl Woods for the hunting season, \u00a0I joined good friend Paul to do a quick trip to Amherst Island in Lake Ontario. We saw many hawks, mostly Rough-legged and Red-tailed in approximately equal numbers. ROUGH-LEGGED … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","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=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}