{"id":14376,"date":"2015-07-23T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14376"},"modified":"2015-07-23T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T18:54:11","slug":"merganser-stuffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14376","title":{"rendered":"Merganser stuffing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes an event&#8217;s distance and rapidity make for low-quality, yet interesting images. This merganser swallowing a fish certainly qualifies.<\/p>\n<p>It is fun to see a merganser eat a fish anytime, but this one seemed unconscionably large for the bird.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14377\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/merganser150723as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stuffing the fish down its gullet proved difficult, so the merganser pushed it in with its toes. I had not seen this behaviour before.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14378\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/merganser150723bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sometimes an event&#8217;s distance and rapidity make for low-quality, yet interesting images. This merganser swallowing a fish certainly qualifies. It is fun to see a merganser eat a fish anytime, but this one seemed unconscionably large for the bird. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14376\">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":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376","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=14376"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14388,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14376\/revisions\/14388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}