{"id":24981,"date":"2026-02-21T14:44:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24981"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:52:46","slug":"red-shouldered-hawk-buteo-lineatus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24981","title":{"rendered":"Red-shouldered Hawk (<em>Buteo lineatus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24983\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_20260221_029229.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24983\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_20260221_029229-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_20260221_029229-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_20260221_029229-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_20260221_029229-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_20260221_029229-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_20260221_029229.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24983\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red-shouldered Hawk (<em>Buteo lineatus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went to Great Falls today. The ice and snow is finally gone and although there were some wet spots on the towpath, it wasn&#8217;t particularly muddy. After walking out to Olmsted Island and back, we saw this red-shouldered hawk (<em>Buteo lineatus<\/em>) eating something that we couldn&#8217;t quite see. It&#8217;s fairly well camouflaged against the background, so a lot of folks had been walking by without stopping. My telephoto lens told them that there was something to see and then a lot of folks stopped to watch. These are beautiful birds, quite graceful in flight. They are, however, much easier to photograph well when they aren&#8217;t flying. These are a little smaller than their cousins, the somewhat more common (here, anyway) red-tailed hawk (<em>Buteo jamaicensis<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went to Great Falls today. The ice and snow is finally gone and although there were some wet spots on the towpath, it wasn&#8217;t particularly muddy. After walking out to Olmsted Island and back, we saw this red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) eating something that we couldn&#8217;t quite see. It&#8217;s fairly well camouflaged against the &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24981\">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":[61,2231,1072,3663,345,1869,3664],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981"}],"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=24981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24984,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981\/revisions\/24984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}