{"id":1000458,"date":"2007-03-24T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/03\/24\/373-burrowing-owl\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T09:47:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:47:54","slug":"373-burrowing-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/03\/24\/373-burrowing-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"#373: Burrowing Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a tip that Burrowing Owls were relatively common at San Jose Mineta International Airport, so last night at sunset before dropping off my rental car and catching the red eye home, I stopped in the long term parking lot to scan the runways. I parked roughly in the middle of the lot (section 101) and walked south toward the tower as far as I could. I saw a Red-tailed Hawk, one Northern Mockingbird, and one owl burrow but no owls.<\/p>\n<p>I turned back around and walked north. I saw one American Crow and had a breif flurry of excitement that turned out to just be a Mourning Dove. About three quarters of the way toward the north end of the lot, I saw something fly from the fence into the grass. It was getting dark, but not so dark that my binoculars couldn&#8217;t clearly pick it out as a Burrowing Owl! It perched in the grass, flew to a new perch in the grass, then flew back to the fence. If it hadn&#8217;t been flying and perching on the fence, I would never have spotted it in the grass. Possibly there were multiple owls in the grass that I walked right by.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1000459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/burrowingowl1.JPG\" alt=\"Burrowing Owl perched on barbed wire fence\" width='640' height='563' \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a little bigger than I was expecting. Somehow I was thinking it was the size of a Sawwhet, but in fact it was a little bigger than a Screech Owl.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1000460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/burrowingowl2.JPG\" alt=\"Burrowing Owl preening\" width='640' height='477' \/><\/p>\n<p>2007-03-23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a tip that Burrowing Owls were relatively common at San Jose Mineta International Airport, so last night at sunset before dropping off my rental car and catching the red eye home, I stopped in the long term parking lot to scan the runways. I parked roughly in the middle of the lot (section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}