{"id":38,"date":"2025-05-17T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:49:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:49:18","slug":"38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Battle on the treetops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"537\">High above the treetops, a young <strong>grey heron<\/strong> ventures out into the world\u2014still learning the ways of wind and wing. But not all eyes in the sky are kind. A <strong>hooded crow<\/strong>, bold and unprovoked, swoops in with unrelenting purpose. This is not about territory. It is a lesson\u2014one of many the young heron must learn. In the wild, strength is tested not only by predators, but by rivals, by neighbours\u2026 and by those who simply enjoy a chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"707\"><em data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"554\">Ardea cinerea<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"402\" data-end=\"558\">Shot with:<br \/>\nCanon EOS 6D + Sigma 150-600mm f\/5.0-6.3<br \/>\n600mm | 1\/4000 | f\/6.3 | ISO2000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High above the treetops, a young grey heron ventures out into the world\u2014still learning the ways of wind and wing. But not all eyes in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1727-Enhanced-NR.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lensbymatthi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}