{"id":21825,"date":"2017-09-06T07:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21825"},"modified":"2017-09-06T07:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:48:39","slug":"osprey-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21825","title":{"rendered":"Osprey &#038; fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The recent posting about <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21807\">fish and bears<\/a> might have left the impression that it was only bears that take advantage of spawning kokanee salmon. Not so: eagles, ospreys, ravens and gulls do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, this Osprey flying past looks as if it is packing its favourite snack: a sucker. Just behind the fish is a wasp that is trying to keep pace.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21827\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/osprey170905s2DMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Near the spawning channel, another Osprey is feasting on a kokanee. The intensity of this bird&#8217;s gaze in defence of its meal reminded me of last April&#8217;s shot of a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20112\">Merlin<\/a> doing likewise.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21826\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/osprey170905bs5.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The recent posting about fish and bears might have left the impression that it was only bears that take advantage of spawning kokanee salmon. Not so: eagles, ospreys, ravens and gulls do likewise. Mind you, this Osprey flying past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21825\">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":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21825","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=21825"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21848,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21825\/revisions\/21848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}