{"id":25030,"date":"2018-11-08T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25030"},"modified":"2018-11-09T10:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T18:54:19","slug":"incompatible-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25030","title":{"rendered":"Incompatible raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among our various local raptors, there are two that are almost mutually exclusive: the Osprey and the Rough-legged Hawk. The Osprey hunts over water in the warm months; the Rough-legged Hawk hunts over land in the cold months. Although each spends a half year here, the one might never have encountered the other.<\/p>\n<p>The Osprey begins arriving from the Tropics in April and returns in September. It lives on fish. This picture was taken last June 15<sup>th<\/sup>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23835\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/osprey180615s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Rough-legged Hawk begins arriving from the Arctic in September and returns in April. It lives on rodents. This picture was taken November 7<sup>th<\/sup> (yesterday).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25031\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/roughleggedhawk181107s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Among our various local raptors, there are two that are almost mutually exclusive: the Osprey and the Rough-legged Hawk. The Osprey hunts over water in the warm months; the Rough-legged Hawk hunts over land in the cold months. Although &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=25030\">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-25030","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\/25030","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=25030"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25048,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25030\/revisions\/25048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}