{"id":1848,"date":"2008-03-25T07:32:49","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/25\/hot-falcon-sex-update\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T07:42:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T15:42:40","slug":"hot-falcon-sex-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/25\/hot-falcon-sex-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot falcon sex update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those sexy peregrine falcons have been at it again, judging from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ucsc.edu\/scpbrg\/falconcameraSJ.htm\">webcam high on a ledge of the San Jose City Hall<\/a>, where the happy couple are warming four eggs (&#8220;they look like little red potatoes,&#8221; Melissa exclaims) for a mid- to late April hatching.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ucsc.edu\/scpbrg\/falconcameraSJ_ms.htm\">Here&#8217;s an alternate link<\/a> if the first video feed doesn&#8217;t work). <\/p>\n<p>The big news on the falcon front is that Clara has a new paramour dubbed Carlos. Apparently there was a quite a scrap for Clara&#8217;s tender affections and Jose, the male lead of last spring&#8217;s drama, was sent in search of other female companionship. Carlos might be the baddest bird in three counties but right now he&#8217;s doing the ultimate manly duty: keeping the eggs warm while Clara fetches breakfast. <\/p>\n<p>More falcon drama at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pets.groups.yahoo.com\/group\/SanJosePeregrines\/\">Yahoo discussion group<\/a> devoted to San Jose&#8217;s avian stars.  Here&#8217;s the new guy:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/us.a2.yahoofs.com\/groups\/g_17866262\/f8a9\/__sr_\/d7b9.jpg?grQUV6HBBvg4QFjn\"  width=\"352\" height=\"240\"><\/div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be discouraged if you see what appears to be a bird sitting there doing nothing.  They fidget every few minutes and inevitably offer glimpses of their eggs.  <\/p>\n<p>(Say goodbye to productivity at City Hall; not that there ever was any to begin with). <\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hikehalfdome.com\/blog.html\/692\">Rick at Hike Half Dome<\/a> for reminding me to post this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those sexy peregrine falcons have been at it again, judging from the webcam high on a ledge of the San Jose City Hall, where the happy couple are warming four eggs (&#8220;they look like little red potatoes,&#8221; Melissa exclaims) for&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/25\/hot-falcon-sex-update\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}