{"id":20826,"date":"2017-06-12T06:03:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20826"},"modified":"2017-06-12T07:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T14:09:48","slug":"great-horned-chick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20826","title":{"rendered":"Great horned chick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A birding guidebook says that the Great Horned Owl is a common resident of almost all habitats in our region. Fair enough, but just try to find one.<\/p>\n<p>So, it was a delight to encounter one, and its chick, in the last few days. (OK, I didn&#8217;t find it on my own; Joanne Siderius, the senior naturalist at Kokanee Creek Park, showed me where to look.)<\/p>\n<p>A Great Horned Owl perches high in the forest and watches trail walkers far below.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20828\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/greathornedowl170611as6.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nearby is one of its two chicks on its first day out of the nest.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20827\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/greathornedowl170611cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"721\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A birding guidebook says that the Great Horned Owl is a common resident of almost all habitats in our region. Fair enough, but just try to find one. So, it was a delight to encounter one, and its chick, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20826\">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-20826","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\/20826","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=20826"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20846,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20826\/revisions\/20846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}