{"id":126,"date":"2007-03-10T16:59:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T08:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2008-02-28T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T23:22:42","slug":"weekend-airshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Airshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Taiwan, Hakka people&#8217;s tomb sweeping season starts right after the Lantern Festival (January 15 on the Lunar Calendar, which is March 4 this year).\u00a0 So we returned to my hometown, \u5353\u862d, late last night for the important occasion.\u00a0 This morning, as my extended family was performing the ritual, an airshow quietly started overhead&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First I spotted a hawk circling in the lower sky.\u00a0 While everybody were watching its performance, a second hawk joined it and both began to fly towards our direction, almost directly over us.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hawk1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hawk2.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Then the duo\u00a0began to play and circled for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hawk3.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>To everyone&#8217;s amazement, as the duo broke up the circling pattern, a third one joined them.\u00a0 But they were some distances away at the time and I was not able to get a good shot with my wife&#8217;s small Sony camera.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ll leave it to your imagination.<\/p>\n<p>We saw a lone hawk fly at last year&#8217;s tomb sweeping.\u00a0 But this is my first time to see more than one hawk fly at the same time.\u00a0 Is it because our environment is getting cleaner?\u00a0 If you are interested, I also got the duo performance in motion: <a href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/hawk.wmv\" target=\"_blank\">click to download<\/a> (7 MB).<\/p>\n<p>If you were expecting to see aircraft fly here, I am sorry.\u00a0 If you are into bird spotting, could you tell me what kind of hawk I saw?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Taiwan, Hakka people&#8217;s tomb sweeping season starts right after the Lantern Festival (January 15 on the Lunar Calendar, which is March 4 this year).\u00a0 So we returned to my hometown, \u5353\u862d,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}