{"id":2277,"date":"2011-07-13T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T23:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2011-07-13T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T23:51:42","slug":"lizard-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2277","title":{"rendered":"Lizard lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Kite sent me these pictures of a young female Kestrel taking a\u00a0Northern Alligator Lizard home for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>These pictures are really very nice captures. First, the Kestrel is not all that common along the West Arm of Kootenay Lake and these were taken part way along the arm, near Duhamel. Second, to get a shot of a Kestrel carrying a lizard is superb. Third, in the first picture, the Kestrel is deploying its alulae as it negotiates the tree branches. Its all quite grand.<\/p>\n<p>The female Kestrel flies back to the tree with its prey.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2279\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kestrelF110713DKa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then rests with it on a tree branch.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2284\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/kestrelF110713DKb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\nPictures used with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Kite sent me these pictures of a young female Kestrel taking a\u00a0Northern Alligator Lizard home for lunch. These pictures are really very nice captures. First, the Kestrel is not all that common along the West Arm of Kootenay Lake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2277\">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-2277","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\/2277","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=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}