{"id":14612,"date":"2015-08-15T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14612"},"modified":"2015-08-15T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T23:06:06","slug":"bat-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14612","title":{"rendered":"Bat hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For ingenuity and technical prowess, there are few exploratory projects around the Lake that can rival that of Derek Kite&#8217;s photography: He has set out to take pictures of\u00a0bats.\u00a0But, not just bats in a roost, but bats on the wing while hunting insects over the Lake at night. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is like the proverbial problem of finding a black cat in a coal cellar, but with the added difficulty that the cat (the bat in this case) is\u00a0not only unseen\u00a0in the darkness, but\u00a0is passing through\u00a0the cellar at a high speed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bat banks as it swings around to capture an insect.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14613\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bat150728sDK.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Derek Kite&#8217;s picture is used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For ingenuity and technical prowess, there are few exploratory projects around the Lake that can rival that of Derek Kite&#8217;s photography: He has set out to take pictures of\u00a0bats.\u00a0But, not just bats in a roost, but bats on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14612\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612","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=14612"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14620,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions\/14620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}