{"id":11392,"date":"2014-08-15T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2014-08-15T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T01:24:15","slug":"osprey-attacks-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11392","title":{"rendered":"Osprey attacks heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first evidence I heard of the titanic battle was\u00a0the repeated cries of a heron sounding the cacophony of a harassed soul. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Far out onto the Lake, in the dim light of a driving rainstorm, two birds\u00a0waged war. I knew at once that one bird was a heron, but thought that the other must have been\u00a0an eagle (Did I mention the low light?). I grabbed my camera and managed only a few shaky hand-held shots. Only later when I looked at those flawed pictures did I realize that the aggressor was not an eagle, but an osprey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why was the osprey harassing a\u00a0heron? I have no idea. But the battle passed through a dozen or more\u00a0swoops and banks by the osprey over a period of perhaps a minute or two.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When first spotted, the cacophonous battle was taking\u00a0place in the air over the Lake. It took me a moment or two to grab a camera and begin to record the final\u00a0few encounters of this portion of the conflict. Here the osprey (top) is diving on the heron (bottom).<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11397\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ospreyheron140815as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The heron was forced into the Lake, and the osprey repeatedly dived on\u00a0it from above.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11396\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ospreyheron140815bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The osprey coursed back and forth, first attacking from one side and then wheeling and attacking from the other.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11395\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ospreyheron140815cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each of these shots\u00a0corresponds to a separate attack.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11394\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ospreyheron140815ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best view\u00a0of an\u00a0attack was the last one of an osprey with it claws out and the heron expressing horror at what was\u00a0happening. In the end, the osprey gave up and moved on. Why did it happen? I don&#8217;t know.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11393\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ospreyheron140815es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The first evidence I heard of the titanic battle was\u00a0the repeated cries of a heron sounding the cacophony of a harassed soul. \u00a0 Far out onto the Lake, in the dim light of a driving rainstorm, two birds\u00a0waged war. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11392\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392","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=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11410,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions\/11410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}