{"id":1455,"date":"2010-03-11T19:16:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2010-03-11T19:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:16:56","slug":"sneaking-up-on-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Sneaking up on things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just last week spring was here.\u00a0 Granted, no flowers were blooming yet, and for that matter they still aren&#8217;t blooming.\u00a0 And then winter snuck up on us again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1456\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/marchsnow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1456\" title=\"marchsnow1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/marchsnow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snow has swirled around, a couple of inches accumulates and then melts and then returns.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1457\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/marchsnow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1457\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1457\" title=\"marchsnow2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/marchsnow2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just last week all this ground was bare of snow.  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>It has been snowing again off and on all day today, and predicted to continue doing that for the next couple of days.\u00a0 Spring is sneaking up on winter though; and the Equinox is only 10 days away.<\/p>\n<p>Birds are sneaking north.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve seen Robins, Varied Thrush, Mountain Bluebirds, Meadowlarks, Song Sparrow, and heard Great Horned Owls,\u00a0 Pygmy Owls (often), and Saw-whet Owls.\u00a0 Hummingbirds in six weeks!!!!!!\u00a0 It&#8217;s totally amazing to think that there will be green grass and flowers in just that long.<\/p>\n<p>Recently we&#8217;ve had eagles hanging around our place, much to Opal&#8217;s dismay who is of the opinion they are trying to sneak up on her and eat her.\u00a0 She tell us immediately when she sees these large predators, occasionally when they are still outside of our ability to see them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1460\" style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/golden1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1460\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1460\" title=\"golden1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/golden1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This adult Golden Eagle had won the high ground and sneaking up to take a picture is not easy!  Eagle-eyed does have a basis in fact.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1461\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/golden2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1461\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1461\" title=\"golden2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/golden2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perched on the tippy top of a pine tree, the winds challenged this eagle to stay there.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1462\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/golden3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1462\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1462\" title=\"golden3\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/golden3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gold on the back of the head of a Golden Eagle is distinctive.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of sneaking up on things, here is Mishkin attempting to sneak up on a mouse which he had cleverly released in the kitchen so that he would have more fun catching it again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1463\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/rodent-releaser1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1463\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1463\" title=\"rodent-releaser1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/rodent-releaser1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was on flaw in his master plan.  The mouse just wasn&#39;t that into the whole catch and release concept of play.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1464\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/rodent-releaser2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1464\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1464\" title=\"rodent-releaser2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/rodent-releaser2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mish couldn&#39;t figure out why he wasn&#39;t able to fit underneath this furniture.  After all he remembers being able to do that.  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mish did pay for letting the mouse go.\u00a0 He spent the entire day trying to entice his little playmate out from under the furniture.\u00a0 The story has a happy ending from our perspective in that the mouse did end up being caught.\u00a0 Mish has a new nickname given to him by Dan &#8211; Rodent-releaser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just last week spring was here.\u00a0 Granted, no flowers were blooming yet, and for that matter they still aren&#8217;t blooming.\u00a0 And then winter snuck up on us again. It has been snowing again off and on all day today, and predicted to continue doing that for the next couple of days.\u00a0 Spring is sneaking up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}