{"id":14464,"date":"2015-08-01T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14464"},"modified":"2015-08-06T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T22:11:55","slug":"an-infestation-of-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14464","title":{"rendered":"An infestation of eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why the\u00a0sudden infestation of eagles?<\/p>\n<p>On occasion, Bald Eagles fly by or even visit, but at sunrise on\u00a0Friday perhaps a half-dozen individuals started circling and landing. Only a few of these birds produced satisfactory pictures, yet, the story of the unexpected visitors proved\u00a0so interesting, it will be spread over\u00a0three postings. This is the first.<\/p>\n<p>The first to arrive was a sub adult which\u00a0flew into a tree above me.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14465\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/eagle150731bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once it spotted me, it seemed distinctly unpleased and quickly flew off.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14467\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/eagle150731cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then a progression of sub adults and adults circled over us, and&#8230;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14466\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/eagle150731as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>an adult landed and glowered down from an adjacent tree.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14469\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/eagle150731bsFFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then another sub adult flew in&#8230;,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14471\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/eagle150731es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the adult chased it around the Lake before driving it off.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14472\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/eagle150731ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>Finally, my grandson pointed out the reason for all of this activity: a fish on the beach. Now understanding what an impediment we were, the humans retreated to a safe viewing distance and left the area to the eagles. Then, things got even more interesting&#8212;to be continued.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14475\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/fish150731s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">The eagle glowering picture (#4) was taken by Finn Grathwol and is used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Why the\u00a0sudden infestation of eagles? On occasion, Bald Eagles fly by or even visit, but at sunrise on\u00a0Friday perhaps a half-dozen individuals started circling and landing. Only a few of these birds produced satisfactory pictures, yet, the story of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14464\">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-14464","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\/14464","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=14464"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14567,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions\/14567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}