{"id":96,"date":"2005-03-05T20:36:03","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T01:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2007-11-08T11:02:06","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T16:02:06","slug":"spring-watch-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Spring watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two or three months, I&#8217;ve been hearing a Great Horned Owl calling when I&#8217;ve been in my office at night. Three weeks ago, I finally saw him, sitting up on the roof of the old Kane County court house building a block away from the church. No wonder he sounded so loud from my office.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t heard him for a while, but I thought I heard him hooting last night, from somewhere further south in Geneva. He always gives four hoots at a time &#8212; hoo hoo-hoo hoo &#8212; which is how I know he&#8217;s male. I have not heard any females giving their call, of five to six hoots, at all this winter. It&#8217;s getting late for owls to try to find a mate, and I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if the male has given up on downtown Geneva and is moving further afield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two or three months, I&#8217;ve been hearing a Great Horned Owl calling when I&#8217;ve been in my office at night. Three weeks ago, I finally saw him, sitting up on the roof of the old Kane County court house building a block away from the church. No wonder he sounded so loud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geneva-ill","category-spring-watch","tag-great-horned-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}