{"id":10228,"date":"2023-04-11T21:53:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T01:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10228"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:41:41","slug":"young-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/04\/young-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Young owl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was out for a walk at dusk in nearby Wheelwright Park, and heard a strange sound coming from a nearby tree \u2014 a sort of whiny &#8220;cheep&#8221; kind of sound. I looked up, and there was a juvenile Great Horned Owl about 10 meters up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fading light made it hard to see much, but the bird appeared to have well-developed flight feathers. The prominent ear tufts which are characteristic of adult Great Horned Owls were just starting to form. And the plumage was a lighter color than adult plumage. So my guess is that this was a young owl out for one of its first forays from the nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I stood watching it \u2014 and trying to take photos with my smartphone \u2014 I thought I heard another owl cheeping from a tree farther away. It seems like there were two young owls out trying out their new wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/GHOW.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7584-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"An owl sitting on a branch partway up a tree, at some distance from the camera. The light is dim, and the photo is pixelated and of poor quality.\" class=\"wp-image-10229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7584-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7584-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7584-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7584-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7584-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7584-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_7584.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out for a walk at dusk in nearby Wheelwright Park, and heard a strange sound coming from a nearby tree \u2014 a sort of whiny &#8220;cheep&#8221; kind of sound. I looked up, and there was a juvenile Great Horned Owl about 10 meters up. The fading light made it hard to see much, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/04\/young-owl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Young owl&#8221;<\/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":[945,845],"tags":[678],"class_list":["post-10228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-se-massachusetts","tag-owls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10233,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions\/10233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}