{"id":14546,"date":"2021-08-09T08:58:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=14546"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:58:06","slug":"unexpected-visitor-coopers-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=14546","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Visitor: Cooper\u2019s Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/psnp.info\\\/p4td_\\\/?p=14546\"}' class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-attachment-id=\"14543\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?attachment_id=14543\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09634.jpg?fit=2000%2C1583&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1583\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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class=\"wp-image-14543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09634.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09634.jpg?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09634.jpg?resize=1024%2C810&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09634.jpg?resize=768%2C608&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09634.jpg?resize=1536%2C1216&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09634.jpg?resize=904%2C716&amp;ssl=1 904w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09634.jpg?w=1808&amp;ssl=1 1808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-attachment-id=\"14542\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?attachment_id=14542\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?fit=1725%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1725,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;DSC-RX10M4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1628283632&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;135.89&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dsc09669\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?fit=259%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?fit=883%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"904\" height=\"1048\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?resize=904%2C1048&#038;ssl=1\" data-id=\"14542\" class=\"wp-image-14542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?w=1725&amp;ssl=1 1725w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?resize=259%2C300&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?resize=883%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 883w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?resize=768%2C890&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?resize=1325%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1325w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/dsc09669.jpg?resize=780%2C904&amp;ssl=1 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cooper\u2019s Hawk: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA \u2014 We had gathered at my daughter and son-in-law\u2019s home in Santa Fe for a backyard cookout \/ rehearsal dinner for their one year, delayed due to Covid, celebration of their wedding vows\u202620 or so people chatting in groups in the backyard, when a biggish bird swooped down at about 5 feet through the yard, just at my wife\u2019s eyelevel and only about a foot from her face, and then swooped up into the tree over the grill. It sat there for at least 15 minutes giving us the eye as at least some of us paused to wonder at it. I was the official casual photographer at the event so I had my camera in my hand and got some photos. At first I thought the hawk had some plastic wrapped around its talons and tail, but closer examination of the photos when I got home showed that it had picked up something furry and apparently grabbed the plastic along with whatever it caught. After a while it moved on into a tree in the next yard, where it stayed for at least the next hour. Hopefully it got its prey, and itself, untangled from the plastic before it moved on. We have seen three individual Cooper\u2019s Hawks in the 5 days we have been Santa Fe\u2026one at the Santa Fe River Preserve where it is to be expected\u2026this one making this unexpected visit to a backyard full of people\u2026and another hunting House Sparrow along the Camino Real hike and bike trail along the Santa Fe River channel. It must be a good year for Cooper\u2019s Hawks in Santa Fe. Sony Rx10iv at about 370mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Polarr and Apple Photos. ISO 640 @ f4 @ 1\/500th. <\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-14546\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=14546&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-14546\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=14546&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=14546&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooper\u2019s Hawk: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA \u2014 We had gathered at my daughter and son-in-law\u2019s home in Santa Fe for a backyard cookout \/ rehearsal dinner for their one year, delayed due to Covid, celebration of their wedding vows\u202620 or so people chatting in groups in the backyard, when a biggish bird swooped down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-14546\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=14546&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-14546\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=14546&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=14546&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11,305,67,263,303,118],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26ui8-3MC","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}