{"id":14487,"date":"2015-08-02T16:46:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T23:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14487"},"modified":"2015-08-02T17:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T00:51:38","slug":"eagle-feast-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14487","title":{"rendered":"Eagle feast & fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This story began with\u00a0the posting called an infestation of eagles<\/a>. It is continued here as eagles feast and fight<\/i>. The final\u00a0posting will show an\u00a0aspect of eagle behaviour that was new to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Humans retreated and left the beach and fish to the eagles. Many eagles had taken an interest in the fish, but which one would get it? Not unexpectedly, it was the largest adult. Among raptors, females are larger than males, so it is probably a female who flew in and grabbed the fish (a sucker, from the look of it).
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The eagle quickly set to tearing off bits of flesh and downing\u00a0them.
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Abruptly, the eagle hid its fish under its body and made agitated\u00a0calls to something overhead.
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This somewhat blurry shot shows the problem: a challenger for the prize.
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The two eagles skirmished, but the first to arrive was larger and it prevailed.
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The first (larger, female?) eagle triumphed. The challenger accepted the hierarchy and waited patiently for scraps. What happened next will be the substance of the next posting.
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The skirmish picture (#5) was taken by Finn Grathwol and is used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This story began with\u00a0the posting called an infestation of eagles. It is continued here as eagles feast and fight. The final\u00a0posting will show an\u00a0aspect of eagle behaviour that was new to me.\u00a0 Humans retreated and left the beach and … Continue reading →<\/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-14487","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\/14487","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=14487"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14511,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14487\/revisions\/14511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}