{"id":1891,"date":"2012-07-13T23:09:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T03:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2012-07-13T23:09:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T03:09:07","slug":"urban-wings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/urban-wings\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Wings"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, I noticed a falcon sitting on the fire escape of an empty building in Holyoke that I pass on the way to work.<\/p>\n

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I took a closer look after work, and saw that there was what looked like a nest in the top landing of the fire escape:<\/p>\n

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In that blurry cell phone picture, you can see the mama falcon just to the left of the nest, perched on the railing.<\/p>\n

I wanted to bring my better camera to get clearer pictures, but kept forgetting it for a few days.\u00a0 By the time I managed to bring it, I ceased to see the mama there.\u00a0 Eventually, I think whatever babies there flew away, and the nest was abandoned.<\/p>\n

However, one of the mornings I brought my regular camera, I noticed a different sort of flying creature on the side of my building:<\/p>\n

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I know this to be a butterfly, because it rests with its wings folded together (moths have their wings apart when at rest).\u00a0 I owe that knowledge to the trip to Magic Wings<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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A while back, I noticed a falcon sitting on the fire escape of an empty building in Holyoke that I pass on the way to work. I took a closer look after work, and saw that there was what looked like a nest in the top landing of the fire escape: In that blurry cell … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}