{"id":24177,"date":"2018-07-19T08:33:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24177"},"modified":"2018-07-19T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T15:33:17","slug":"small-fliers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24177","title":{"rendered":"Small fliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to capture the passage of small flying birds. Large flying birds are fairly easy for a camera to record, but small ones &#8212; ah, there&#8217;s the rub.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below are three picture of two species showing the flybys of small birds.<\/p>\n<p>While the Wild Turkey is a large bird, its chicks are not, and I have rarely even seen one fly. Here is a Wild Turkey chick flying in the shade against a sunny background.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24179\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wildturkey180717as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same chick then flew into the sunlight.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24178\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wildturkey180717bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A small bird that is always difficult to capture mid-flight is the Spotted Sandpiper.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24180\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/spottedsandpiper180712s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It is difficult to capture the passage of small flying birds. Large flying birds are fairly easy for a camera to record, but small ones &#8212; ah, there&#8217;s the rub.\u00a0 Below are three picture of two species showing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24177\">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-24177","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\/24177","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=24177"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24190,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24177\/revisions\/24190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}