{"id":267,"date":"2009-01-31T18:52:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T16:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/hawfinches\/"},"modified":"2009-01-31T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T16:52:21","slug":"hawfinches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/hawfinches\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawfinches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can any birder not agree that <strong>Hawfinches<\/strong> are really <em>cool birds<\/em>.\u00a0I&#8217;m sure <strong>Franck Renard<\/strong> thinks the same. Just look at his <strong>photos of these beautiful Hawfinches<\/strong>\u00a0below. Feel the photographer&#8217;s respect and desire to portray the\u00a0species as it really is.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hawfinch-franck1.jpg\" alt=\"Hawfinch by Franck Renard\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/hawfinch-franck2.jpg\" alt=\"Hawfinches by Franck Renard\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Hawfinches by Franck Renard<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Franck for sending\u00a0us these photos\u00a0and for allowing us all to enjoy them. It just so happens that this winter\u00a0there has been an exceptionally good number of <strong>Hawfinches in northeast Spain<\/strong>.\u00a0From early November I&#8217;ve had the good fortune to see <strong>Hawfinches in Navarra, Huesca<\/strong> and on several occasions in the <strong>Montsec area, Lleida<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For me nowadays seeing a Hawfinch is one of the bright sparks of <strong>winter birding<\/strong>. And I&#8217;m sure Hawfinches will give Franck and I something to talk about when he comes here in February to <strong>photograph the Lammergeier<\/strong> and other vultures.<\/p>\n<p>Curious to see the face behind the photos? See who Franck Renard is and a little of what he does by following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturapics.com\/articles.php?Article_id=68\" title=\"Franck Renard photographer\">this link<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectiondesoiseaux.be\/index.php\/artistes-animaliers\/53-artistes-animaliers\/72-franckrenard\" title=\"Franck Renard nature photographer\">this other one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can any birder not agree that Hawfinches are really cool birds.\u00a0I&#8217;m sure Franck Renard thinks the same. Just look at his photos of these beautiful Hawfinches\u00a0below. Feel the photographer&#8217;s respect and desire to portray the\u00a0species as it really is. \u00a0 Hawfinches by Franck Renard Many thanks to Franck for sending\u00a0us these photos\u00a0and for allowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-4j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}