{"id":1507,"date":"2011-04-26T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2011-04-27T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T15:40:37","slug":"osprey-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Osprey plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The osprey eats fish that it captures live in stunning plunges from high over the lake. Not every such plunge is successful. This one wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime during this osprey season, I would like to take good pictures of the whole sequence: hover, plunge, enter water, fly off with fish. For now, today\u2019s sequence of five pictures is as good as I have managed.<\/p>\n<p>A circling osprey has spotted something. It slows in anticipation of its dive by dropping its legs (to increase drag) and extending its alulae (to maintain lift).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1508\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/osprey110426a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plunge is more or less of a blur.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1509\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/osprey110426b2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The osprey enters the water and stays under for at least two seconds.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1510\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/osprey110426c2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The osprey emerges, but it is still not clear if it caught the fish.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1511\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/osprey110426d2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alas, it flies off with empty claws. Both it and I will try again.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1512\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/osprey110426e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The osprey eats fish that it captures live in stunning plunges from high over the lake. Not every such plunge is successful. This one wasn\u2019t. Sometime during this osprey season, I would like to take good pictures of the whole &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1507\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}