{"id":1420,"date":"2011-04-15T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2011-04-15T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T00:26:14","slug":"trial-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Trial nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 8px; width: 200px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website offers a discussion and many pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/raptors\/ospreys\/index.html\">ospreys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ospreys are back at the Lake. If they have been here previously, they will usually reclaim an earlier nest. If the bird is a first\u2013time breeder or the nest was destroyed, a new one must be built. This seems to involve a fair bit of trial and error. Below are two pictures of the same piling taken on different years. Each time sticks were brought in; each time after a bit of consideration, the site was abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2009, ospreys brought sticks to this piling and then abandoned it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1421\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/osprey090420a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In April 2011, an osprey brought one stick to the same piling, pondered for a while and left.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1422\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/osprey110415s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kootenay Lake website offers a discussion and many pictures of local ospreys. Ospreys are back at the Lake. If they have been here previously, they will usually reclaim an earlier nest. If the bird is a first\u2013time breeder or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1420\">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-1420","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\/1420","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=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}