{"id":3248,"date":"2017-02-08T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2017-02-08T19:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T02:45:14","slug":"urban-coopers-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/urban-coopers-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"An Urban Cooper&#8217;s Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h4>An Urban Cooper&#8217;s Hawk<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newscenter.nmsu.edu\/articles\/view\/11265\/cooper-s-hawk-abundance-gives-nmsu-researcher-insight-on-other-raptor-biology\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Cooper&#8217;s hawk<\/a>, here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was hanging out in a pine tree, waiting for dinner to appear. This is an adult, as opposed to the one in the header image. My neighbors and I have seen this hawk a lot in the past month. Such a hawk is easy to spot when it is flying, or when it lands near a bird feeder. The so-called urban forests of the Northeast Heights of Albuquerque provide easy cover into which they are well camouflaged, however.<\/p>\n<p>I took this photo two minutes into the Super Bowl. When photographic opportunities appear&#8230; (Not much was happening in the first two minutes of Super Bowl \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3247\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Susan-Brandt-Graham-0021-2-5.jpg\" alt=\"urban Cooper&#039;s Hawk\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Susan-Brandt-Graham-0021-2-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Susan-Brandt-Graham-0021-2-5-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Urban Cooper&#8217;s Hawk, Waiting for Dinner to Appear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year I briefly saw a fledgling in the yard. 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Such a hawk is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/urban-coopers-hawk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Urban Cooper&#8217;s Hawk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,102,238,138,1],"tags":[320,352,360,321],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-albuquerque","category-birds","category-coopers-hawk-raptors","category-raptors","category-uncategorized","tag-albuquerque","tag-birds","tag-coopers-hawk","tag-new-mexico"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>An Urban Cooper&#039;s Hawk - Susan Brandt Graham Photography<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An urban Cooper&#039;s hawk is easy to spot when soaring or when landing on a bird feeder. 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