{"id":594,"date":"2015-03-02T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2015-03-02T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:03:58","slug":"audio-blue-jay-imitating-red-shouldered-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/audio-blue-jay-imitating-red-shouldered-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio: Blue Jay imitating Red-shouldered Hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t unusual for me to hear<strong> Blue Jays<\/strong> imitating Red-shouldered Hawks, but this morning about 11am I had one do it fairly close to my microphone so I was able to get this recording:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-02-at-3.56.06-PM.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-595\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-02-at-3.56.06-PM.png?resize=500%2C103\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-03-02 at 3.56.06 PM\" width=\"500\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-02-at-3.56.06-PM.png?resize=1024%2C211&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-02-at-3.56.06-PM.png?resize=300%2C62&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-02-at-3.56.06-PM.png?resize=800%2C165&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-02-at-3.56.06-PM.png?w=1074&amp;ssl=1 1074w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-594-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BLJA-immitating-RSHA-2-MAR.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BLJA-immitating-RSHA-2-MAR.mp3\">http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BLJA-immitating-RSHA-2-MAR.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Interestingly, the bird was in a tree near my sparrow slick, and after it quit calling it dropped down to feed on the seed. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if this was an attempt to scare other birds away from the food source&#8211;I didn&#8217;t really see any other birds besides juncos and <strong>White-throated Sparrows<\/strong> on the sparrow slick at the time so not sure there was anything there to really scare. \u00a0At any rate, an interesting recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t unusual for me to hear Blue Jays imitating Red-shouldered Hawks, but this morning about 11am I had one do it fairly close to my microphone so I was able to get this recording: Interestingly, the bird was in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/audio-blue-jay-imitating-red-shouldered-hawk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Blr3-9A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}