{"id":1538,"date":"2008-01-10T20:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/january-raptors\/"},"modified":"2021-12-19T17:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T22:33:21","slug":"january-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/january-raptors\/","title":{"rendered":"January Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack and Shirley and I enjoyed one of those magical days on the Santa Cruz Flats&#8211;sandwiched between paying our respects to the Catalina State Park <strong>Rufous-backed Robin <\/strong>(thanks, Sara!) and the Casa Grande <strong>Northern Jacana<\/strong>. We had about 80 species for the day, and if only there&#8217;d been a few more hours of daylight, we could have pulled off a mid-winter 100 with no difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Raptors, of course, are the highlight of any trip to the flats (though the flock of 47 <strong>Mountain Plover <\/strong>we found was not bad, either). What I really enjoy about Arizona hawkwatching in the winter is the odd combinations. Today&#8217;s best was a famous corner out in  the middlel of the Marana cotton fields, where we&#8217;d gone to see <strong>Burrowing Owls<\/strong>.  They performed well for us, basking in the late-morning warmth, and just down the ditch from one pair sat this mighty predator.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/ferruginous-hawk-jan-2008.bmp\"><\/p>\n<p>An adult <strong>Ferruginous Hawk<\/strong>, one of three we would enjoy in the course of our nice long day. But above this bird sat an incongruous companion, a juvenile <strong>Crested Caracara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/crested-caracara-jan-2008.bmp\"><\/p>\n<p>The most charismatic of prairie buteos meets the &#8220;Mexican eagle&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack and Shirley and I enjoyed one of those magical days on the Santa Cruz Flats&#8211;sandwiched between paying our respects to the Catalina State Park Rufous-backed Robin (thanks, Sara!) and the Casa Grande Northern Jacana. We had about 80 species for the day, and if only there&#8217;d been a few more hours of daylight, we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/january-raptors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;January Raptors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11905,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/11905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}