{"id":38,"date":"2004-12-18T20:38:57","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T20:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2004-12-18T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T20:42:58","slug":"half-time-buzzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/life\/2004\/12\/half-time-buzzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-time Buzzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlevell.net\/blog\/\">Dad<\/a> works in the countryside and when people find sick or injured animals they usually give him a ring. Yesterday he was catching a swan that had got caught in an angler&#8217;s fishing line and today while I was listening to the football (less said about that the better!) Dad went to find an injured buzzard that a friend of my mum&#8217;s had seen.<\/p>\n<p><p>I went along with him (and Mum) to the field where it had been seen, arriving at the stroke of half-time in the football. The only buzzard we could see was perfectly healthy but we went for a walk and our dogs soon found the injured bird in a hedge. Dad had to chase it, its feet were badly wounded but it could still stagger at a surprising speed. By the time we got back to the car with the bird, the football was just kicking off for the second half!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blogphotos\/Buzz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blogphotos\/thumb-Buzz.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\" alt=\"the injured buzzard\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have it in our utility room now (pictured above), the next step is to take it to an expert. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawk-conservancy.org\/\">Hawk Conservancy<\/a> and the &#8220;Ringwood Raptor and Reptile Centre&#8221; are both nearby. Our phone calls today were unsuccessful, I guess we&#8217;ll have to &#8220;hawk&#8221; it about tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping with expert help he makes a full recovery!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Dad works in the countryside and when people find sick or injured animals they usually give him a ring. Yesterday he was catching a swan that had got caught in an angler&#8217;s fishing line and today while I was listening to the football (less said about that the better!) Dad went to find an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}