{"id":22873,"date":"2018-03-06T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22873"},"modified":"2018-03-06T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:14:12","slug":"hunting-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22873","title":{"rendered":"Hunting party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No sighting on the Lake quite matches that of a hunting party of Common Mergansers. They spread out in a\u00a0phalanx as they hunt for fish, often with their heads down as they course across the water scouring the depths. No other local wildlife hunts in this cooperative manner.<\/p>\n<p>Common Mergansers scour the shallows for prey.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22874\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/mergansers180304s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; No sighting on the Lake quite matches that of a hunting party of Common Mergansers. They spread out in a\u00a0phalanx as they hunt for fish, often with their heads down as they course across the water scouring the depths. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22873\">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-22873","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\/22873","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=22873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22877,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22873\/revisions\/22877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}