{"id":5655,"date":"2016-03-13T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:28:45","slug":"orange-county-peregrine-falcons-31316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5655","title":{"rendered":"Orange County Peregrine Falcons, 3\/13\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5656\" style=\"width: 1579px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?attachment_id=5656\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5656\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5246.jpg\" alt=\"~A male Peregrine Falcon shoots by at a rapid pace, Orange County NY, 3\/13\/16.~ \" width=\"1579\" height=\"1053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5246.jpg 1579w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5246-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5246-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5246-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_5246-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">~A male Peregrine Falcon shoots by at a rapid pace, Orange County NY, 3\/13\/16.~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I met up with Kyle Dudgeon this morning to try to photograph Peregrine Falcons. The\u00a0lighting was tough, so\u00a0with the exception of a few photos such as the one at the top of this post, we ended up having more success shooting video with the iPhone through my spotting scope. We ended up with what I think is\u00a0some remarkable footage; I&#8217;ve included three short clips in this post. The first one shows the birds mating, which was incredible to see live and Kyle and I were flipping out:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9RCygmP0LLU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The male left the area for a short while, successfully hunted, and then came back with prey. In this video he eats a portion of the prey and then takes off to share the remainder with the female:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kpp-2QflJjU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>and finally, here is a very short clip of the female finishing up preening and taking flight, flying out of view and then cutting right in front of the scope again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0Z6lZqZGxE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I met up with Kyle Dudgeon this morning to try to photograph Peregrine Falcons. The\u00a0lighting was tough, so\u00a0with the exception of a few photos such as the one at the top of this post, we ended up having more success shooting video with the iPhone through my spotting scope. We ended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=5655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orange County Peregrine Falcons, 3\/13\/16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orangecounty","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-1td","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}