{"id":24698,"date":"2018-09-23T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T22:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24698"},"modified":"2018-09-23T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T23:03:36","slug":"falcon-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24698","title":{"rendered":"Falcon feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A falcon is a small raptor that uses speed to prey upon insects, rodents, and small birds.<\/p>\n<p>We have two falcons present year round (plus three occasional visitors). The smallest of our regular falcons is the Kestrel (80\u2013165 g). Slightly heavier is the Merlin (160\u2013240 g). This last week I watched each of them feast on insects.<\/p>\n<p>A Kestrel chased, caught, and consumed, what I suspect, is a sawfly.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24700\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kestrel180919s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Merlin chased, caught, and consumed a dragonfly (a darner).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24699\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/merlin180922as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If a dragonfly sees this, annihilation is at hand.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/merlin180922bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24702\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A falcon is a small raptor that uses speed to prey upon insects, rodents, and small birds. We have two falcons present year round (plus three occasional visitors). The smallest of our regular falcons is the Kestrel (80\u2013165 g). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=24698\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698","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=24698"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24713,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24698\/revisions\/24713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}