{"id":1576,"date":"2011-05-04T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2011-05-06T06:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T13:40:49","slug":"that%e2%80%99s-my-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s my nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the game seems to be nest usurpation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Swallows<\/span><\/strong>: A few days ago, a <a title=\"Bluebird of unhappiness\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1543\">Mountain Bluebird<\/a> attempted to take over the nest established earlier by <a title=\"Tree swallow nest\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1487\">Tree Swallows<\/a>. Today, as the first picture below shows, the swallows are back firmly in control.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ospreys<\/span><\/strong>: There has also been an ongoing saga of the rather sorry nest being built by two ospreys. It has been told with topics such as: <a title=\"Trial nest\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1420\">trial nest<\/a>, <a title=\"Osprey mating\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1427\">mating<\/a>, <a title=\"Inchoate nest\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1499\">sticks<\/a>, <a title=\"Osprey bites\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1534\">biting<\/a>, and <a title=\"Rising water\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1553\">rising water<\/a>. Today, while the osprey couple were briefly absent, a pair of Canada Geese took over the osprey nest. They scrounged around setting up house. The tranquility did not last. From perhaps 40 metres overhead an osprey started calling. It then started a dive toward the nest. When the osprey was perhaps only about four meters above its nest and closing rapidly, the second picture was taken. It shows the beginning of the abrupt departure of the geese. A moment later, the osprey was back on the nest and the geese were complaining about their lot in life from the surface of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Tree swallows are\u00a0back\u00a0firmly in control of their nest.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1578\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/treeswallows110504s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Canada\u00a0Geese in the process of losing control of the osprey nest.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1579\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geese110504s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The osprey couple firmly in control of the nest the next morning.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1595\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ospreys110505s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the game seems to be nest usurpation. Swallows: A few days ago, a Mountain Bluebird attempted to take over the nest established earlier by Tree Swallows. Today, as the first picture below shows, the swallows are back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1576\">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-1576","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\/1576","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=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}