{"id":150,"date":"2005-07-05T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/07\/05\/sharing\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T23:09:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-28T06:09:56","slug":"screech-owl-roadrunner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/07\/05\/screech-owl-roadrunner\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Screech-owl and a Roadrunner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a juvenile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/programs\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Western_Screech-Owl_dtl.html\">Western Screech-owl (Megascops kennicottii)<\/a> was sitting at a birdbath fountain calmly watching me water the plants in my front garden. The owl didn&#8217;t seem inclined to move away from the nice, cooling water in the birdbath, instead it would just crouch down and give me a goggle-eyed stare whenever I got too close.<\/p>\n<p>The owl was soon joined by a thirsty, male <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/programs\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Greater_Roadrunner_dtl.html\">Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus)<\/a>, which can be recognized as a male due to the brilliant coloration around his eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/July\/owl-and-roadrunner.jpg\" alt=\"Western Screech-owl (Megascops kennicottii) and a Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) at a birdbath\" title=\"Western Screech-owl (Megascops kennicottii) and a Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) at a birdbath\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After some initial wing flapping and aggressive posturing, these two predators calmed down and decided to share the water once they realized that neither could frighten the other bird away. I dropped my garden hose and went inside to get my camera. Neither bird seemed bothered by my presence, and I was able to get quite a few pictures of them before the Roadrunner had drunk his fill and left. The owl remained there for the rest of the day, and it&#8217;s back again today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, a juvenile Western Screech-owl (Megascops kennicottii) was sitting at a birdbath fountain calmly watching me water the plants in my front garden. The owl didn&#8217;t seem inclined to move away from the nice, cooling water in the birdbath, instead it would just crouch down and give me a goggle-eyed stare whenever I got too&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/07\/05\/screech-owl-roadrunner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}