{"id":10522,"date":"2021-03-27T00:03:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10522"},"modified":"2021-03-27T00:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:03:30","slug":"battle-of-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10522","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bald eagles have a fearsome reputation as predators of the sky. They also symbolize the great United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Canada geese? Not so fearsome. They are best known for pooping a lot. (If you ever walked through an Ottawa park after it was visited by a flock of geese, you know what I am talking about.)<\/p>\n<p>Yet just like the country that they are named after, these geese are not so timid after all. Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/prince-edward-island\/pei-bald-eagle-canadian-goose-battle-photographer-1.5958964\">recent series of images<\/a> (and if you search online, you see that this by no means is an exception) captured by a PEI photographer of a Canada goose, fighting off a bald eagle:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/prince-edward-island\/pei-bald-eagle-canadian-goose-battle-photographer-1.5958964\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10523\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/goose-eagle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/goose-eagle.jpg 791w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/goose-eagle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/goose-eagle-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reader&#8217;s Digest version: The eagle remained hungry that day.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10522' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bald eagles have a fearsome reputation as predators of the sky. They also symbolize the great United States of America. Canada geese? Not so fearsome. They are best known for pooping a lot. (If you ever walked through an Ottawa park after it was visited by a flock of geese, you know what I am <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10522' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-nature","category-22-id","category-63-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10525,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10522\/revisions\/10525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}