{"id":1584,"date":"2008-05-09T07:01:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T06:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2008-09-08T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:42:35","slug":"raptor-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"Raptor ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>I&#8217;m pretty certain I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rspb.org.uk\/wildlife\/birdguide\/name\/p\/peregrine\/index.asp#\">a peregrine falcon <\/a>yesterday, even though we are on the limits of their range as reported by the <span class=\"caps\">RSPB<\/span>: in any case, a fairly large falcon with pointed, scimitar-shaped wings and a long, largely straight tail was hunting over a meadow just north of Audley End house. I watched it for nearly five minutes as it gradually ascended. I was wearing polarised sunglasses so the colour was uncertain but what I saw were areas of silvery pale on the breast and body. It was definitely not a kestrel which is smaller, has straighter wings and a less strait tail. Nor did it fly like a kestrel, which tends to move briskly between hovering stations. This bird was ranging over the sky. It had a single call repeated in burst of five or six in two different pitches which is not on the <span class=\"caps\">RSPB<\/span> site but less dissimilar to one of their peregrine posts than anything else. But if it was a peregrine, where is it nesting? The country round here is notoriously short on cliffs and even skyscrapers.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>I&#8217;m pretty certain I saw a peregrine falcon yesterday, even though we are on the limits of their range as reported by the <span class=\"caps\">RSPB<\/span>: in any case, a fairly large falcon with pointed, scimitar-shaped wings and a long, largely straight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1584\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}