{"id":20248,"date":"2017-04-27T09:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20248"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T23:04:56","slug":"two-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20248","title":{"rendered":"Two portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While the naturalist in me likes to explore interesting behaviours — Ogopogo<\/a>, planing<\/a>, katabatic winds<\/a> — the photographer in me just likes to\u00a0take portraits — eagle<\/a>, otter family<\/a>, black grizzly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are two portraits from two days ago.<\/p>\n

Surely our most vocal wild mammalian companion, the Red Squirrel, will vigorously denounce\u00a0all human interlopers. Usually seen on a distant branch, on this occasion, a squirrel dropped down beside me and we stared at each other only long enough for me to capture a portrait.
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A decade ago, I only saw Merlins about three kilometres east of my home. Then they shifted a bit closer. This year, one has chosen to hunt right here. Consequently, this\u00a0falcon has made a stunning difference in the presence of smaller birds: Many now just avoid my property as being far too risky. The compensation is a really close view of a Merlin. Easily seen in this side view of the beak is the tomial (i.e., cutting) tooth. The tooth (and its matching notch on the lower mandible) is a characteristic of falcons and is used to bite through the cervical vertebrae and so sever the spinal cord of their prey.
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  While the naturalist in me likes to explore interesting behaviours — Ogopogo, planing, katabatic winds — the photographer in me just likes to\u00a0take portraits — eagle, otter family, black grizzly. Here are two portraits from two days ago. Surely … Continue reading →<\/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-20248","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\/20248","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=20248"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20296,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20248\/revisions\/20296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}