{"id":13137,"date":"2015-11-29T23:01:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T23:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13137"},"modified":"2015-11-29T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T23:12:21","slug":"red-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13137","title":{"rendered":"Red kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago my husband called me out to the garden to show me two Red kites in the top of the tree behind our garden. We see them overhead every day but have never seen them perched in any of the trees surrounding our garden before.<\/p>\n<p>I went back inside to grab my camera but when I returned one of them had flown already. My camera isn&#8217;t very sophisticated and even with the zoom the photos are still very distant but I did think it gives a bit of an idea of their size. Any other bird as high up in this tree wouldn&#8217;t show up at all in a photo from my camera.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13151\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SDC17884.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13151\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SDC17884.jpg\" alt=\"Red kite in the tree top\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SDC17884.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SDC17884-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red kite in the tree top<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13152\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SDC17888.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13152\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SDC17888.jpg\" alt=\"And again\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SDC17888.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SDC17888-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And again<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I walked further up the garden for the second shot to try to get a bit closer. We watched it for a few minutes before it lazily soared away. They are such magnificent birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago my husband called me out to the garden to show me two Red kites in the top of the tree behind our garden. We see them overhead every day but have never seen them perched in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13155,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions\/13155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}