{"id":35,"date":"2005-10-08T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-08T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2005-10-08T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-08T20:32:00","slug":"a-stunning-white-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/a-stunning-white-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"A stunning white hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/hawk-white-770158.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/hawk-white-769275.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>There was a hint of magic in the air on this beautiful October day. An incredibly clear, blue sky and a sense that the mystical bird was really going to appear. How exciting it was, just as we were about to give up&#8230; there he sat&#8230; a beautiful white hawk. This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/gallery\/hawk-red-tailed-albino.htm\">partial albino Red-tailed Hawk<\/a> that I first spotted January 26th on South Jenkins in Norman. When it swooped across the front of my car on that winter day, I thought I was having an &#8220;other-worldly experience.&#8221; I later learned that several Norman-area birders had been observing him at the area near the Norman Police Department gun range. And that&#8217;s where he was today. Thanks to Dick Gunn who recently let me know that the bird was still in the area and Nathan Kuhnert, my birding buddy for the afternoon, I was able to find the bird and try for a few more photographs. The bird doesn&#8217;t let me get very close, and even with my 12x zoom enhanced by a 1.7 tele extender I just wasn&#8217;t able to get a great photo of the bird. But I&#8217;m going to keep trying! If the price of gas stays reasonable (it was $2.27\/gal. today), I&#8217;ll gladly make the 30 mile trip for a chance at more pictures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a hint of magic in the air on this beautiful October day. An incredibly clear, blue sky and a sense that the mystical bird was really going to appear. How exciting it was, just as we were about to give up&#8230; there he sat&#8230; a beautiful white hawk. This is a partial albino [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.backyardbirdcam.com\/birdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}