{"id":27465,"date":"2019-10-09T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27465"},"modified":"2019-10-09T13:10:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T20:10:39","slug":"grebe-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27465","title":{"rendered":"Grebe &#038; fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4921\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4921\" class=\"wp-image-4921\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/piedbilledgrebe120421as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-4921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pied-billed Grebe gains its name from the dark band around its bill, seen only during the breeding season (2012\/04\/21).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our four regular grebes all dive underwater to forage. The smallest of these is the Pied-billed Grebe. It mostly eats small fish and crustaceans, such as crayfish, which it captures and crushes with its stout bill and strong jaws before swallowing them.<\/p>\n<p>After it surfaces with a prize, one has to be fast to see what has been caught, for the prey is swallowed in a trice.<\/p>\n<p>A nearly five-year old picture, shows a Pied-billed Grebe downing a crayfish (2015\/01\/08). <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12459\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/piedbilledgrebe150108bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Pied-billed Grebe took only five seconds to down a small fish after surfacing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27466\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/piedbilledgrebe191008bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Our four regular grebes all dive underwater to forage. The smallest of these is the Pied-billed Grebe. It mostly eats small fish and crustaceans, such as crayfish, which it captures and crushes with its stout bill and strong jaws &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27465\">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":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27465","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=27465"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27487,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27465\/revisions\/27487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}