{"id":16365,"date":"2016-02-17T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2016-02-17T12:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T20:16:52","slug":"two-merlin-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16365","title":{"rendered":"Two-merlin day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I usually only get to see a merlin a couple of times a year. Yet yesterday, I saw two of them about 50 km apart. A merlin is one of our two falcons, the other being the kestrel.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun had just come over a ridge and was warming the far face of a damp piling which responded by\u00a0spewing out steam fog. At this point a merlin landed and noticed me watching it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16367\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/merlin160216as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apparently deciding that I wasn&#8217;t comestible, it then turned and flew off.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16366\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/merlin160216bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second merlin was resting on a branch after it and some ravens had expressed their mutual hostility.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16368\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/merlin160216s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I usually only get to see a merlin a couple of times a year. Yet yesterday, I saw two of them about 50 km apart. A merlin is one of our two falcons, the other being the kestrel. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16365\">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":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365","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=16365"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16379,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16365\/revisions\/16379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}