{"id":11420,"date":"2024-06-29T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/?p=11420"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:02:03","slug":"peregrine-falcon-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/2024\/06\/29\/peregrine-falcon-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Peregrine Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-11421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSCN4553-1024x552.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSCN4553-1024x552.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSCN4553-300x162.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSCN4553-768x414.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSCN4553-1536x828.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/DSCN4553-2048x1104.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Hamilton. ON. June 27, 2024.<\/em>\u00a0 This is just one of those totally unexpected and serendipitous urban sightings. My companion and I were on a catch-up lunch, two birders with lots to share and cross-check.\u00a0 \u00a0We were both going easy on the alcohol and neither of us had ordered a particularly large lunch, but all was well we had a shady spot in a large and open patio alongside a busy street.<\/p>\n<p>I have no recollection of who was where in his story when we were simultaneously distracted by small background sounds, non-urban sounds that rose above the clatter. Almost in unison we said \u201c<strong>Peregrine Falcon<\/strong>?\u201d and looked up. Two young falcons swept low across the open sky, almost in formation and calling a scratchy \u201cchrea chrea chrea\u201d as they passed. Then as if to impress anyone who cared, the two banked left into a u-turn and did a low overhead fly-past. And that was it.\u00a0 We were impressed and thrilled while none of the other lunchtime diners showed any interest so, we kept it to ourselves, Barry said he\u2019d do an e-Bird report and I made a mental note about this spontaneous Birds of the Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton. ON. June 27, 2024.\u00a0 This is just one of those totally unexpected and serendipitous urban sightings. My companion and I were on a catch-up lunch, two birders with lots to share and cross-check.\u00a0 \u00a0We were both going easy on the alcohol and neither of us had ordered a particularly large lunch, but all was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/2024\/06\/29\/peregrine-falcon-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peregrine Falcon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11420"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11432,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420\/revisions\/11432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mybirdoftheday.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}