{"id":2682,"date":"2009-05-31T03:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2009-05-31T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T08:00:40","slug":"b1rd-off-the-port-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2682","title":{"rendered":"B1RD Off the Port Bow!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out hiking Saturday, taking advantage of the awesome weather that just showed up.  Did some geocaching, but also brought my new camera out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofhuntleymeadows.org\/\">Huntley Meadows Park<\/a>, a wetland wildlife sanctuary about 40 minutes to the south of me.  We had a downpour on Friday (after rain off and on all week), so I knew it would be muddy off the main (paved) trail, but mid 70s with relatively low humidity is just too good to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour into my hike, I was passing through a meadow area on a soggy path, and I kept hearing a bird chirp right behind me, but there was no tree nearby.  I finally spotted it \u2014 he (it could have been a she) was dive-bombing me!  Either he felt I was intruding or he really didn&#8217;t like my Asilomar Beach hat, but either way he was aiming for the head and pulling up at the last second, despite me not having a &#8220;strafe me&#8221; sign on my back.<\/p>\n<p>I was a little startled, but since I wasn&#8217;t hiking with Tippi Hedren I didn&#8217;t think I was in too much danger.  I got the last pass on film, after this I guess I was far enough away from the nest (there were several birdhouses near the trail).  The video camera was still set for 420 fps, so I got it in slo-mo.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Od424yTKaD8?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Od424yTKaD8?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out hiking Saturday, taking advantage of the awesome weather that just showed up. Did some geocaching, but also brought my new camera out to Huntley Meadows Park, a wetland wildlife sanctuary about 40 minutes to the south of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2682\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,35,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-other-science","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}