{"id":24825,"date":"2025-11-29T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24825"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:09:10","slug":"red-tailed-hawk-buteo-jamaicensis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24825","title":{"rendered":"Red-tailed Hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24828\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251129_027554.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24828\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251129_027554-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251129_027554-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251129_027554-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251129_027554-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251129_027554-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_20251129_027554.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-tailed Hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went out to McKee-Beshers today, hoping to see a few birds. I saw and got a handful of photos of this red-tailed hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>) flying overhead but that&#8217;s pretty much all we saw. We heard a few birds but either didn&#8217;t see them or they were too far away to get a good look at, even through my long lens.<\/p>\n<p>We did walk around and out towards the beaver lodge. It&#8217;s not clear if it&#8217;s actively in use, although there did seem to be some sign of recent activity. It was a beautiful day, in any case, and it&#8217;s great to be outdoors on days like that, especially when it&#8217;s cold and we tend to stay in doors. Being out in the sun is good medicine. Seeing hawks soaring is also pretty nice. We&#8217;ll be back here, probably a few more times, before spring but then especially once the spring season brings so many more birds back (see <a href=\"?p=24494\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday, May 18, 2025<\/a> for my best birding day at McKee-Beshers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went out to McKee-Beshers today, hoping to see a few birds. I saw and got a handful of photos of this red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) flying overhead but that&#8217;s pretty much all we saw. We heard a few birds but either didn&#8217;t see them or they were too far away to get a good &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24825\">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":[61,2231,1072,1071,345,2875,3117,1069],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825"}],"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=24825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24830,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24825\/revisions\/24830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}