{"id":21849,"date":"2017-09-07T16:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21849"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T23:22:20","slug":"kokanee-scavenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21849","title":{"rendered":"Kokanee scavenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I casually presented a list of some <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21825\">predators of spawning kokanee<\/a>. In addition to bears, I listed: eagles, ospreys, ravens, and gulls. Bert Port then added mallards, and while I suggested they snack on the eggs, these could also be considered to be kokanee, if fertilized.<\/p>\n<p>While I hadn&#8217;t presumed that my list was exhaustive, I had not guessed that I would so quickly add &#8212; if not a predator &#8212; at least a kokanee scavenger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is one of five Turkey Vultures that were seen eyeing spawners from high in the trees. Vultures find meals by the odour of rotting flesh &#8212; something unmistakable along the spawning channel.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21850\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/turkeyvulture170907s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yesterday, I casually presented a list of some predators of spawning kokanee. In addition to bears, I listed: eagles, ospreys, ravens, and gulls. Bert Port then added mallards, and while I suggested they snack on the eggs, these could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21849\">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-21849","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\/21849","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=21849"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21869,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions\/21869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}