{"id":11443,"date":"2025-02-09T17:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T22:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:28:03","slug":"hawks-and-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11443","title":{"rendered":"Hawks and Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it is because the winter has been particularly cold or the local lake is drained and the ecosystem is disrupted &#8230; but we&#8217;ve never had a problem with hawks and eagles until this year. For most of the year, the buzzards keep them away. But this month! We lost a duck to a hawk &#8212; I came around the corner and <em>saw <\/em>the thing eating a duck. A week or so later, two ducks were missing and big feathery spots were in the duck yard. We put a small radio tuned to a talk station out in the duck yard &#8212; which seems to have helped <em>there<\/em>, but we lost two chickens today. I think a rooster tried to rescue the hen and was taken out. So Anya spent the day making scarecrows for both the duck and chicken yard. I mounted old CDs around the fence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250209_162041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250209_162041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250209_162041.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250209_162041-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250209_162041-768x723.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250209_162041-750x706.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if it is because the winter has been particularly cold or the local lake is drained and the ecosystem is disrupted &#8230; but we&#8217;ve never had a problem with hawks and eagles until this year. For most of the year, the buzzards keep them away. But this month! We lost a duck &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1443,1069,1365],"tags":[2092,1990,2090,2091,2089],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-ducks","category-gardening","category-turkeys","tag-eagle","tag-eagles","tag-hawk","tag-hawks","tag-scarecrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11445,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions\/11445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}