{"id":14865,"date":"2015-09-04T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T23:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14865"},"modified":"2015-09-04T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T02:13:18","slug":"merganser-retard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14865","title":{"rendered":"Merganser retard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Common Merganser predominantly eats fish, which it catches live, brings to the surface, and swallows whole (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14376\">merganser stuffing<\/a>). Chicks start by catching insects but switch to fish after a few weeks. By the time they become juveniles, their diet\u00a0should be predominantly live fish. Yet, knowing just what to catch might be a skill mastered slowly.<\/p>\n<p>An adult watches as a juvenile surfaces with an inedible fish carcass. One can almost hear the adult saying: &#8220;This training may take longer than I had hoped.&#8221;\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14866\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/merganser150904as3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Common Merganser predominantly eats fish, which it catches live, brings to the surface, and swallows whole (see merganser stuffing). Chicks start by catching insects but switch to fish after a few weeks. By the time they become juveniles, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14865\">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-14865","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\/14865","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=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14882,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions\/14882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}