{"id":6151,"date":"2018-10-10T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/harriss-hawk\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T23:30:56","slug":"harriss-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/harriss-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris&#8217;s Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/harris-hawk-1.jpg' title='Hawk in Flight'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/harris-hawk-1.jpg' alt='Hawk in Flight' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/harris-hawk-2.jpg' title='Perched on Flagpole'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/harris-hawk-2.jpg' alt='Perched on Flagpole' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I noticed a large bird in the Mesquite tree up by the bird feeders while doing dishes in the kitchen. I dried my hands, grabbed my camera and went out to see what it might be. I took the top photo while this juvenile Harris&#8217;s Hawk was in flight departing the bird feeder area.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom photo is of another Harris&#8217;s Hawk perched on our flagpole. This bird does not have the juvenile speckled feathers on its breast. It flew off shortly after this photo and joined five other Harris&#8217;s hawks on the large power pole and wires across the road from our place. Harris&#8217;s Hawks hunt in groups two to seven birds. I guess we have a group that hunts locally now.<\/p>\n<p>Click on either image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harris%27s_hawk\">Wikipedia says this about these hawks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This species occurs in relatively stable groups. A dominance hierarchy occurs in Harris&#8217;s hawks, wherein the mature female is the dominant bird, followed by the adult male and then the young of previous years. Groups typically include from 2 to 7 birds. Not only do birds cooperate in hunting, they also assist in the nesting process. No other bird of prey is known to hunt in groups as routinely as this species.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed a large bird in the Mesquite tree up by the bird feeders while doing dishes in the kitchen. I dried my hands, grabbed my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,12,8,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}