{"id":759,"date":"2008-06-17T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:26:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:26:13","slug":"i-know-i-know-its-a-swainsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"I know, I know&#8230; it&#8217;s a Swainson&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I can be&#8230; um&#8230; slightly hard-headed at times. I want very badly for this to be a Ferruginous Hawk. Not that I think it necessarily looks like one, just that I want it to be one, you know?<br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/prairiehawk1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212641184513770578\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/prairiehawk1-300x202.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I went all the way to North Dakota and deserve to have seen a Ferruginous, don&#8217;t you think? I had my life Swainson&#8217;s Hawk in Cape May years ago and a textbook-looking one that <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billofthebirds.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Bill of the Birds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> showed us on my birthday on the first day of the Potholes and Prairie Festival.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/prairiehawk2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212640864116493666\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/prairiehawk2-300x199.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Then, we surprised this hawk the following day in the hills of the Coteau Region. Tell me what makes this a Swainson&#8217;s&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll take your word for it.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>As an aside: I&#8217;d thought separating Eastern hawks was difficult. Pfft!<\/p>\n<p>The Swainson&#8217;s has 3 age classes and is polymorphic (whatever the heck that means!) The Ferruginous has 2 ages classes and is also polymorphic. (I think!)<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can be&#8230; um&#8230; slightly hard-headed at times. I want very badly for this to be a Ferruginous Hawk. Not that I think it necessarily looks like one, just that I want it to be one, you know?I went all the way to North Dakota and deserve to have seen a Ferruginous, don&#8217;t you think? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=759\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I know, I know&#8230; it&#8217;s a Swainson&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}