{"id":1147,"date":"2011-03-15T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T20:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2011-03-15T15:21:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T22:21:51","slug":"killdeer-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"Killdeer, hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the next month or so, new birds arrive weekly. Monday&#8217;s observations were of a Killdeer couple (first two pictures) and a Red\u2013tailed Hawk (second two pictures).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin: -0 0 0 8px; width: 240px; float: right; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website has one page devoted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/waders\/plovers\/index.html\">Killdeer<\/a> and another to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/raptors\/rthawks\/index.html\">Red-tailed Hawk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Normally there is little in the plumage to distinguish the male and female Killdeer, but the first picture shows a somewhat plumper bird. Could it be pregnant? The second Killdeer seems to have grown a third leg (snicker).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1148\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/killdeer110314b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1150\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/killdeer110314a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have a favourite spot to watch for Red\u2013tailed Hawks in the spring. The row of trees still lacks leaves, and the hawk can sit there and watch for voles on a south facing bank upon which the snow melts earlier than elsewhere. The first picture merely shows the hawk in one of the trees. The second picture is a composite of two shots (taken less than a second apart) of it landing in another tree. That the Red\u2013tailed Hawk is well named is clear.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1151\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/redtailedhawk110314b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1152\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/redtailedhawkseq110314a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next month or so, new birds arrive weekly. Monday&#8217;s observations were of a Killdeer couple (first two pictures) and a Red\u2013tailed Hawk (second two pictures). The Kootenay Lake website has one page devoted to the Killdeer and another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1147","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\/1147","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=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}