{"id":8957,"date":"2019-01-27T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2019-01-27T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T21:09:19","slug":"rough-legged-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8957","title":{"rendered":"Rough-legged Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012719-RLHA3-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012719-RLHA3-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012719-RLHA3-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012719-RLHA3-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012719-RLHA3-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012719-RLHA3-2-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/012719-RLHA3-2.jpg 1246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>~Rough-legged Hawk in flight, Black Dirt Region 01\/27\/19. One of my goals for 2019 is to look more closely at birds&#8217; plumages. This bird looks to me like it might be an adult female, based on the dark trailing edge on the wings (adult), and the buffy underwing coverts with brown mottling (female).~<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You know how certain birds just do it for you? That&#8217;s how it was today with this Rough-legged Hawk; it is the best looking bird I&#8217;ve seen in a long while. What I wouldn&#8217;t have done for a decent photograph of this bird. I had several fantastic scope views of this bird perched, and it just blew me a way; there&#8217;s just something about the bird&#8217;s pale, vanilla colored head that is just gorgeous to me. Who knows, maybe our paths will cross again and things will work out differently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how certain birds just do it for you? That&#8217;s how it was today with this Rough-legged Hawk; it is the best looking bird I&#8217;ve seen in a long while. What I wouldn&#8217;t have done for a decent photograph of this bird. I had several fantastic scope views of this bird perched, and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=8957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rough-legged Beauty&#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_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":[23,19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-dirt","category-photos","category-raptors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-2kt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957","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=8957"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8957\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}