{"id":19714,"date":"2017-03-15T08:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19714"},"modified":"2017-03-15T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T01:11:11","slug":"harrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19714","title":{"rendered":"Harrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The harrier is a distinctive hawk that flies low over grasslands searching for mice and voles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Northern Harriers can be seen in the fields around Kootenay Lake at any time of the year, but they are never common. My sightings have been from the south end of the Lake in January (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4019\">raptor rapture<\/a>), the north end in April (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4889\">Lardeau walk<\/a>) and the West Arm in September (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14926\">harrier at Park<\/a>). However, the harrier pictures shown below were taken at the Coast (of BC).<\/p>\n<p>The brownish female harrier has her\u00a0head tipped down as she searches for grassland comestibles.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19716\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/harrier170306ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The greyish male harrier does likewise.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19717\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/harrier170306cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That harriers cruise low to the ground enables this view of a female from above.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19718\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/harrier170306as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And she\u00a0alighted nearby allowing a portrait.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19715\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/harrier170306es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The harrier is a distinctive hawk that flies low over grasslands searching for mice and voles.\u00a0 Northern Harriers can be seen in the fields around Kootenay Lake at any time of the year, but they are never common. My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19714\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19714","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\/19714","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=19714"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19742,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714\/revisions\/19742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}