{"id":15019,"date":"2015-09-19T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15019"},"modified":"2015-09-19T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T23:17:13","slug":"a-week-of-two-falcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15019","title":{"rendered":"A week of two falcons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Falcons are small raptors built for speed. We have two:\u00a0Merlins and Kestrels. I watched each this last week.<\/p>\n<p>A Merlin was harassed by three Crows. They were merely a nuisance for this highly manoeuvrable killing machine.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15020\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/merlin150918cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After driving off the Crows, the Merlin seemed to assess the photographer as an unworthy target.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15021\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/merlin150918as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a Kestrel spent a moment apparently deciding if the photographer were worth eating.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15022\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kestrel150917s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, if capturing a photographer was not one\u00a0of the Kestrel&#8217;s skills, capturing a vole was.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15023\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kestrel150915as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Falcons are small raptors built for speed. We have two:\u00a0Merlins and Kestrels. I watched each this last week. A Merlin was harassed by three Crows. They were merely a nuisance for this highly manoeuvrable killing machine. After driving off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15019\">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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019","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=15019"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15039,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15019\/revisions\/15039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}