{"id":2905,"date":"2013-06-09T20:58:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2013-06-10T20:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T12:59:36","slug":"black-shouldered-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/09\/black-shouldered-kite\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Shouldered Kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2811\" alt=\"black shouldered kite\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-029-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-029-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-029.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><em>Beautiful pale grey hawk<\/em> are the first four words in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdsinbackyards.net\/content\/biblio\/Field-guide-birds-Australia-6th-Edition\" target=\"_blank\">Field Guide<\/a> description of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bird.net.au\/bird\/index.php?title=Black-shouldered_Kite\" target=\"_blank\">Black Shouldered Kite<\/a> E<em>lanus axillaris,<\/em> and they are correct. \u00a0It has a pure white head, body and tail with the most gorgeous eyes that look they have been outlined with black kohl eyeliner. \u00a0I was even happier to read that it is a specialist predator of\u00a0rodents, which it hunts by hovering above open land.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black-shouldered_Kite\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia:<\/a> Adults can take two or three mice a day, and on one occasion a male was observed bringing no less than 14 mice to a nest of well-advanced fledglings within an hour. \u00a0It sometimes looks like a seagull as it glides on upswept wings and when it hovers its yellow feet dangle down.<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2810\" alt=\"20130609 048\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-048-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-048-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-048.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful pale grey hawk are the first four words in the Field Guide description of the Black Shouldered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130609-029.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}