{"id":12048,"date":"2019-01-10T23:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T23:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=12048"},"modified":"2019-01-11T22:37:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T22:37:25","slug":"ottawa-gyrfalcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=12048","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa: Gyrfalcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears as though the adult grey morph first seen in Ottawa, Ontario by Tony Beck and Nina Stavlund in early December, and once again seen on Christmas day, continues. A birder sent this image into the OFNC sightings line and it was forwarded over to (lucky) me.<!--more--> A good go-to on perched birds (if they are at all contentious as to their ID) is the wing-to-tail-length ratio; note how far short of the tail tip the wings are falling in this posture&#8230;not something you&#8217;d see on a Peregrine.<\/p>\n<p>It was seen this afternoon (January 10th) from Britannia Point (Britannia Filtration Plant), which is the northeastern dead end of Cassels Street, just east of Mud Lake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1010021-01-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12049\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1010021-01-01-226x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1010021-01-01-226x300.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1010021-01-01.jpeg 596w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo:<\/strong> Adult Gyrfalcon with Mallard prey. Daniel Shaw. 10 January 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6829.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12058\" src=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6829-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6829-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6829-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_6829-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo:\u00a0<\/strong>Juvenile grey morph Gyrfalcon on the frozen-over Ottawa River, seen from Britannia Filtration Plant early in the afternoon on 11 January 2019. Eric Baldo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears as though the adult grey morph first seen in Ottawa, Ontario by Tony Beck and Nina Stavlund in early December, and once again seen on Christmas day, continues. A birder sent this image into the OFNC sightings line and it was forwarded over to (lucky) me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12060,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions\/12060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}