{"id":64,"date":"2006-03-24T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T03:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/25\/drama-at-carter-lake\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T07:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:30:45","slug":"drama-at-carter-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/drama-at-carter-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama at Carter Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorting gulls this morning at Carter Lake, Iowa, we were startled by the sudden appearance of an adult <strong>Peregrine Falcon<\/strong>, which flashed past us to land on a hapless <strong>Killdeer<\/strong>. It took off with its squirming prey, only to find itself beset by a brash immature <strong>Herring Gull<\/strong>, which chased it acrobatically until it dropped the <strong>Killdeer<\/strong>, which flew a short distance and dived into the water<strong>, <\/strong>only to be plucked from the surface by a 3rd-year <strong>Bald Eagle<\/strong>! The eagle landed in the shallows and plucked and consumed the plover. What a way to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorting gulls this morning at Carter Lake, Iowa, we were startled by the sudden appearance of an adult Peregrine Falcon, which flashed past us to land on a hapless Killdeer. It took off with its squirming prey, only to find itself beset by a brash immature Herring Gull, which chased it acrobatically until it dropped &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/drama-at-carter-lake\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drama at Carter Lake&#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":[13,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}