{"id":21572,"date":"2017-08-10T08:17:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21572"},"modified":"2017-08-10T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T21:22:55","slug":"raven-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21572","title":{"rendered":"Raven attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Only days after a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21564\">marmot accosted a local hiker<\/a>, I was attacked by a raven. Had our local wildlife started to run amuck? It was easy to be reminded of Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s 1963 horror-thriller,\u00a0<em>The Birds<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>There was no need to conjure up a wildlife conspiracy. The raven was a freshly hatched chick that had taken to begging from humans whom it mistook for its parents.<\/p>\n<p>The raven chick begged incessantly, pulled at my trousers, and tried to eat my shoe laces. I had no food to give it, so it soon transferred its attentions to someone else.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21573\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raven170809bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were a few clues that this was a chick, but the striking one was its flesh-coloured gape.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21574\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/raven170809as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Only days after a marmot accosted a local hiker, I was attacked by a raven. Had our local wildlife started to run amuck? It was easy to be reminded of Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s 1963 horror-thriller,\u00a0The Birds. There was no need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21572\">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-21572","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\/21572","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=21572"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21582,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21572\/revisions\/21582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}