{"id":11143,"date":"2014-07-17T11:48:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11143"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T22:29:49","slug":"shore-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11143","title":{"rendered":"Shore patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The darner season is upon us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Darners are a group of large, colourful, dragonflies that relentlessly patrol shorelines for insect prey. Happily, they are voracious eaters of mosquitoes. Unlike some groups of dragonflies that hunt from a perch&#8212;and so are fairly easy to photograph&#8212;darners are almost always seen on the wing. Photographically, they constitute\u00a0a small rapidly\u00a0moving target many metres off upon which framing and focussing is difficult. Many shots are taken; few are successful.<\/p>\n<p>This Paddle-tailed Darner is\u00a0patrolling\u00a0the shoreline. To ease flying, its legs are\u00a0tucked out of the way.\u00a0<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11145\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/paddletaileddarner140715bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the darner turned roughly in my direction, its sunlit\u00a0wings flashed\u00a0like a burst of fireworks.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11144\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/paddletaileddarner140715as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The darner season is upon us.\u00a0 Darners are a group of large, colourful, dragonflies that relentlessly patrol shorelines for insect prey. Happily, they are voracious eaters of mosquitoes. Unlike some groups of dragonflies that hunt from a perch&#8212;and so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11143\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11143"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11164,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11143\/revisions\/11164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}