{"id":22711,"date":"2023-04-23T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22711"},"modified":"2023-05-15T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:40:33","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-buteo-jamaicensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22711","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22713\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230423_007384.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22713\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230423_007384-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230423_007384-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230423_007384-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230423_007384-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230423_007384-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/img_20230423_007384.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-tailed Hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to the farm park for a short visit today. I got a few photos of bluebirds, both male and female (<em>Sialia sialis<\/em>), a red-winged blackbird (<em>Agelaius phoeniceus<\/em>), and a sparrow or other small bird that I can&#8217;t identify. I decided to go with this shot of a red-tailed hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>), though. Taking photos of birds on the wing is challenging at the best of times. With my long&#x2014;150&#x2013;600mm&#x2014;lens, it&#8217;s even more challenging. The lens is quite heavy and getting it aimed at the bird, much less focused is pretty hit or miss. Mostly miss. This one turned out pretty well and I got a few more just about the same, so I&#8217;m please with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to the farm park for a short visit today. I got a few photos of bluebirds, both male and female (Sialia sialis), a red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), and a sparrow or other small bird that I can&#8217;t identify. I decided to go with this shot of a red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis), though. Taking &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=22711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[48,61,1072,1071,345,1869,1069],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22714,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22711\/revisions\/22714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}