{"id":12,"date":"2010-09-27T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=12"},"modified":"2025-02-11T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T13:39:50","slug":"and-now-a-word-about-falconry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2010\/09\/27\/and-now-a-word-about-falconry\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now A Word About Falconry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bet you&#8217;ve never thought\u00c2\u00a0about falcons\u00c2\u00a0while sipping\u00c2\u00a0a glass of wine, but birds of prey can play a key role in sustainable vineyard management when deployed to chase away the birds who would otherwise eat ripe grapes at harvest time.\u00c2\u00a0If you want to learn the basics of how it works, it&#8217;s all in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qFLBHDJu96E\">this video I took<\/a> during a demo at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakebread.com\/\">Cakebread Cellars<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakebread.com\/about\/Vineyards\/index.cfm?vineyard=vineyard_suscol_springs.html\">Suscol Springs Ranch<\/a> a couple weeks ago at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakebread.com\/about\/AHW\/schedule_of_events_2010.cfm\">American Harvest Workshop<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0If you watch until the actual hunt begins (and if we\u00c2\u00a0had the same\u00c2\u00a0freshman English teacher), you&#8217;ll be reminded of\u00c2\u00a0John Updike&#8217;s poem <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:2hj_z1zTqjEJ:cwp.belmont.k12.ma.us\/fhaas\/handouts\/great_scarf_birds_updike.doc+%22the+great+scarf+of+birds%22&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\">&#8220;The Great Scarf of Birds&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe class=\"youtube-video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qFLBHDJu96E?si=DRYAt4PiWheALb6f\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More to come from the Workshop soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet you&#8217;ve never thought\u00c2\u00a0about falcons\u00c2\u00a0while sipping\u00c2\u00a0a glass of wine, but birds of prey can play a key role in sustainable vineyard management when deployed to chase away the birds who would otherwise eat ripe grapes at harvest time.\u00c2\u00a0If you want to learn the basics of how it works, it&#8217;s all in this video I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19,20,18,17],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-vineyard","tag-cakebread-cellars","tag-napa-valley","tag-vineyard-management","tag-viticulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}