{"id":26522,"date":"2013-05-02T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26522"},"modified":"2013-06-14T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:54:17","slug":"nature-red-in-tooth-or-beak-and-claw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26522","title":{"rendered":"Nature Red in Tooth (or Beak) and Claw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Jonathan Broughton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=20907\">Jonathan Broughton<\/a>\u00a02 May 2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26530\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Sparrowhawk-Sue-Norton.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26530\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26530\" alt=\"Sparrowhawk in St Helen's Road garden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Sparrowhawk-Sue-Norton-300x231.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Sparrowhawk-Sue-Norton-300x231.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Sparrowhawk-Sue-Norton-1024x791.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Sparrowhawk-Sue-Norton.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sparrowhawk in St Helen&#8217;s Road garden, April 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This amazing picture of a Sparrowhawk with its pigeon prey was taken last month in St Helen\u2019s Road.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Norton, who runs Cafe Sixty Seven in Bohemia Road arrived home after work one day at the end of April to find a garden full of feathers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just like someone had ripped open a feather pillow. They were everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her next door neighbour, Neil, took the picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing,\u201d said Sue, \u201cBecause the garden is about one hundred and thirty foot long and Neil took the picture from his study window.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The stream-lined shape and yellow eye make the Sparrowhawk easy to identify.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have known it was my garden,\u201d said Sue,\u00a0 \u201cExcept for the upturned wire basket that I use to cover new plants. I have to protect them from the mower when my husband does the grass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pigeons in Hastings, beware.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any pictures of unusual wildlife in your garden? We\u2019d love to see them.<\/p>\n<p>Email to: <a href=\"mailto:editor@bohemiavillge.com\">editor@bohemiavillge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Include details of when and where the pictures were taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jonathan Broughton\u00a02 May 2013 &nbsp; Sparrowhawk in St Helen&#8217;s Road garden, April 2013 This amazing picture of a Sparrowhawk with its pigeon prey was taken last month in St Helen\u2019s Road. Sue Norton, who runs Cafe Sixty Seven in&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26522\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":26530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[230,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bv\/Sparrowhawk-Sue-Norton.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26522"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26526,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26522\/revisions\/26526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}