{"id":24483,"date":"2018-08-30T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24483"},"modified":"2018-08-30T15:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T22:31:08","slug":"osprey-harassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24483","title":{"rendered":"Osprey harassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This has been a really good year for wasps &#8212; not so good for the rest of us. Ospreys feed on fish, and wasps really like that.<\/p>\n<p>An osprey has taken a fresh fish to the top of a piling to devour. However, wasps quickly gather around, behind, and on the fish. A bite into the fish holds the risk of downing an angry wasp.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24486\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/osprey180830as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frustrated, the osprey vents. (OK, it was probably just lightening the load before takeoff, but it is pleasant to imagine that the wasps were being targeted.) <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24484\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/osprey180830cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m outa here, and you guys just cannot keep up with me.&#8221;\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24485\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/osprey180830bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This has been a really good year for wasps &#8212; not so good for the rest of us. Ospreys feed on fish, and wasps really like that. An osprey has taken a fresh fish to the top of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24483\">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":[9,10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs","category-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483","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=24483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24490,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions\/24490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}