{"id":6740,"date":"2014-03-04T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:28:11","slug":"neighborhood-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/neighborhood-merlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighborhood Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just this morning, as I walked Luke to the park, I thought about how we didn\u2019t 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

\"merlin<\/a><\/p>\n

\"merlin<\/a>
Death bows its head.<\/p>\n

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

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Neighborhood Merlin<\/a> is a post from Ah, Wilderness!<\/a> . Let me know what you think<\/a>. peace, mjh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just this morning, as I walked Luke to the park, I thought about how we didn’t 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 […]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Neighborhood Merlin<\/a> is a post from Ah, Wilderness!<\/a> . Let me know what you think<\/a>. peace, mjh<\/em><\/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":[104],"class_list":["post-6740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wild","category-photos","tag-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740","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=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7466,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions\/7466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}