{"id":2129,"date":"2011-06-27T20:42:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T03:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2011-06-28T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T00:17:41","slug":"heron-trumps-mergansers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2129","title":{"rendered":"Heron trumps chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p onmousedown=\"return false\">When momma merganser and her eight chicks came by at noon today, I obtained an acceptable picture and felt good. After all, when I made the posting, <a title=\"Water babies\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2037\">Water Babies<\/a>, I had only managed to shown one merganser chick. Now there were eight; what could improve on that?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that was before a heron flew by. Yikes! That has to be one of my top few captures ever.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Common Merganser discusses hunting strategy with her eight chicks<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2130\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mergansers110627s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, who cares about merganser chicks when this appears?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2131\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/heron110627as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When momma merganser and her eight chicks came by at noon today, I obtained an acceptable picture and felt good. After all, when I made the posting, Water Babies, I had only managed to shown one merganser chick. Now there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2129\">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-2129","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\/2129","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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}