{"id":1502,"date":"2014-03-04T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2014-03-04T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:30:17","slug":"neighborhood-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just this morning, as I walked Luke to the park, I thought about how we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see our usual merlin (falcon) this winter. In years past, it occupied a particular telephone pole top almost every late afternoon from October to March. Not so this winter. Imagine my surprise when I spotted this merlin an hour later near the usual spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCF1034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"merlin (falcon) - mjh\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"merlin (falcon) - mjh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCF1034_thumb.jpg\" width=\"591\" height=\"772\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCF1030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"merlin (falcon) - mjh\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"merlin (falcon) - mjh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSCF1030_thumb.jpg\" width=\"884\" height=\"772\"><\/a><br \/>Death bows its head.<\/p>\n<p>As I watched and photographed, the merlin left its prey and moved to a nearby tree. A scrub jay flew at it and the merlin flew around a bit before landing in another nearby tree. The jay went straight at the merlin and landed near it. A moment later, the merlin left the area. Drama on our street. Was the prey related to the jay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just this morning, as I walked Luke to the park, I thought about how we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see our usual merlin (falcon) this winter. In years past, it occupied a particular telephone pole top almost every late afternoon from October to March. Not so this winter. Imagine my surprise when I spotted this merlin an hour &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Neighborhood Merlin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albuquerque","category-birds","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}