{"id":14389,"date":"2015-07-25T18:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T01:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14389"},"modified":"2015-07-25T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T01:13:08","slug":"eagle-dramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14389","title":{"rendered":"Eagle dramas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a drama I had only seen once before, but this time it played out in a rather different manner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Bald Eagle is just too big to be able to hover over one spot except by flying into\u00a0a rather high wind. And that is the way I saw it before: in a high wind, an eagle hovered over a merganser and tried to capture it. This time, the high wind brought a four-year-old Bald Eagle to try to capture a mallard, or probably, its chick. Given the appearance and the noise of the wind, the mallards may have been unaware that they were being targeted.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14391\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eagle150725aH.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What happened next was unexpected. An osprey appeared, attacked the eagle, and drove it off. Why did the osprey do it? I haven&#8217;t a clue. But, the mallards swam off as if nothing had happened.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14390\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/eagle150725bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It was a drama I had only seen once before, but this time it played out in a rather different manner.\u00a0 A Bald Eagle is just too big to be able to hover over one spot except by flying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14389\">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-14389","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\/14389","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=14389"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14399,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions\/14399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}