{"id":11344,"date":"2014-08-10T10:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T17:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11344"},"modified":"2014-08-10T19:33:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T02:33:01","slug":"dragon-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11344","title":{"rendered":"Dragon hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 2px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 8px; width: 280px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\"><strong>Guest posting<\/strong>: The pictures and text are from my nine-year old grandson, Finn.<br \/>Alistair<\/p>\n<p>Preparation is important before\u00a0going to\u00a0hunt\u00a0dragons with your grandfather. After all, dragons are wily and skittish. So before heading out, we checked our equipment and refined our\u00a0stalking technique.<\/p>\n<p>Although\u00a0flying darners proved too elusive for the equipment, perching meadowhawks yielded to my skilful\u00a0stalking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is the result of an hour that I spent\u00a0stalking and shooting\u00a0dragons in the Park.<\/p>\n<p>Male Cherry-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11346\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cherryfacedmeadowhawkM140806sFFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Female Cherry-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11349\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cherryfacedmeadowhawkF140806sFFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Male White-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11348\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/whitefacedmeadowhawkM140806sFFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Female White-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11347\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/whitefacedmeadowhawkF140806sFFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Detail of the head of female White-faced Meadowhawk dragonfly. Notice the cellular structure of the compound eyes.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11345\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/whitefacedmeadowhawkF140806sFFGdetail.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Guest posting: The pictures and text are from my nine-year old grandson, Finn.Alistair Preparation is important before\u00a0going to\u00a0hunt\u00a0dragons with your grandfather. After all, dragons are wily and skittish. So before heading out, we checked our equipment and refined our\u00a0stalking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-11344","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\/11344","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11344"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11369,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11344\/revisions\/11369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}