{"id":1604,"date":"2011-12-31T19:45:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T08:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2013-01-13T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T03:00:12","slug":"black-shouldered-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Black shouldered kite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting down to a lovely evening meal of Chinese dumplings and Newton&#8217;s Ridge Pinot Grigio, we soaked up the warm summer evening&#8217;s sights and sounds of the approaching dusk.<\/p>\n<p>Casting an eye over at the fallen Cypress, we saw something, scattering bits of fluff on top of the old cracked stem. A juvenile black shouldered kite appeared to be enjoying his meal in the relative quiet atop. Bothered only by butterflys and taking time to spread its wing to let the day&#8217;s warmth dissipate.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1604 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1605'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0648-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1606'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0664-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1607'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0660-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?attachment_id=1608'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DSC_0666-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting down to a lovely evening meal of Chinese dumplings and Newton&#8217;s Ridge Pinot Grigio, we soaked up the warm summer evening&#8217;s sights and sounds of the approaching dusk. Casting an eye over at the fallen Cypress, we saw something, scattering bits of fluff on top of the old cracked stem. A juvenile black shouldered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Black shouldered kite<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[75,76,74],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","tag-black-shouldered-kite","tag-cypress-trees","tag-newtons-ridge-pinot-grigio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}