{"id":2229,"date":"2011-07-06T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2011-07-07T07:48:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:48:49","slug":"happy-herons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2229","title":{"rendered":"Happy herons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some years I have taken pictures of the herons that stop by the docks and pilings within sight of my home. A pattern emerged: there were no heron pictures during the osprey season of late spring and summer. None! Now, it wasn&#8217;t that the herons had abandoned the region, but during that time, they avoided osprey territory, and Crescent Bay was clearly osprey territory with its nests and considerable activity. I wrote about the pattern of heron versus osprey observations last October with a posting entitled, <a title=\"Herons return\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=473\">Herons return<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All that changed this year: the year of the great West Arm blow down (see,\u00a0<a title=\"Ospreys\u2019 annus horribilis\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1936\">Ospreys&#8217; annus horribilis<\/a>). With ospreys in retreat, suddenly I am seeing herons here during the summer. I have posted a few pictures as herons came by: <a title=\"Uptick response\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2146\">Uptick response<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Heron trumps chicks\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2129\">Heron trumps chicks<\/a>. And below is a picture from this morning. But, only this morning did I recognize the changed pattern: these pictures were taken in June and July, a time when herons had not previously visited.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that a local disaster for ospreys has made for some rather happy herons.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an ill wind that&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2230\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/heron110706s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some years I have taken pictures of the herons that stop by the docks and pilings within sight of my home. A pattern emerged: there were no heron pictures during the osprey season of late spring and summer. None! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2229\">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-2229","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\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}