{"id":1667,"date":"2016-01-12T21:03:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2016-01-13T02:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T02:17:00","slug":"birding-tip-stay-on-that-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=1667","title":{"rendered":"Birding Tip: Stay on that Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘On’, as in, keep it in your binocular view. While standing along the edge of Greenland Rd. in Dunrobin, Ontario last spring (April 2015), I first spotted the bird in the pic as a distant spec. Troubleshooting began as some candidate hawk species were considered, with the initial lean ending with “female Cooper’s Hawk.”<\/p>\n

However, something was a touch ‘off’ about the very distant Cooper’s and I kept the bird in view as it slowly but surely worked its way closer to where I was standing. The closer it got, the better it looked for something even “better” than Cooper’s. It neared closer still and banked, providing a clear view of its entire body shape. There was no doubt at this point….the bird was a goshawk!<\/p>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: Note its head dwarfed by the width of its massive chest; and its long and broad tail fusing with its thick body. Also, the wings show a strong bulge at the secondaries and taper in width at the ‘hands’; a classic Northern Goshawk silhouette.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Good birding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘On’, as in, keep it in your binocular view. While standing along the edge of Greenland Rd. in Dunrobin, Ontario last spring (April 2015), I first spotted the bird in the pic as a distant spec. Troubleshooting began as some candidate hawk species were considered, with the initial lean ending with “female Cooper’s Hawk.”<\/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-1667","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\/1667","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=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}