{"id":5711,"date":"2013-01-11T13:43:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:56:55","slug":"sometimes-youre-the-predator-sometimes-youre-the-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/sometimes-youre-the-predator-sometimes-youre-the-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you&rsquo;re the predator, sometimes you&rsquo;re the prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/photos\/spike-the-roadrunner\/\">Spike, the roadrunner<\/a> a mouse. He carried the mouse about 10 feet from me. Just then, a merlin swooped in to within inches of Spike. Spike dropped the mouse and ran. The merlin flew over my head. All of this happened in a second and without a sound. I lifted my jaw from the ground. The merlin landed on the telephone pole behind our house. Binocs showed the merlin didn\u2019t have the mouse, which was still where Spike dropped it.<\/p>\n<p>The next time I fed Spike, he dropped the mouse and walked away \u2013 something he has never done. He came back after a minute. He\u2019s learned it\u2019s a jungle out there, even in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>This occurred three days after we watched a merlin take a white-winged dove around the corner from us.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2013\/01\/DSC00735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"merlin kills white-winged dove at McKnight and Mock\" 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 kills white-winged dove at McKnight and Mock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2013\/01\/DSC00735_thumb.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2013\/01\/DSC00736.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"merlin kills white-winged dove at McKnight and Mock\" 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 kills white-winged dove at McKnight and Mock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2013\/01\/DSC00736_thumb.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/tags\/merlins\/\">my Flickr photos of merlins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fed Spike, the roadrunner a mouse. He carried the mouse about 10 feet from me. Just then, a merlin swooped in to within inches of Spike. Spike dropped the mouse and ran. The merlin flew over my head. All of this happened in a second and without a sound. I lifted my jaw from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/sometimes-youre-the-predator-sometimes-youre-the-prey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes you&rsquo;re the predator, sometimes you&rsquo;re the prey<\/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":[123,7],"tags":[139,138],"class_list":["post-5711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wild","category-photos","tag-merlin","tag-spike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}