{"id":27873,"date":"2019-12-17T06:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27873"},"modified":"2019-12-17T06:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:57:57","slug":"raptor-ramble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27873","title":{"rendered":"Raptor ramble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I spent a few hours rambling among raptors. While many were seen perched, this posting favours raptors seen flying.<\/p>\n<p>We have two resident falcons, each of which was seen. This is the smaller; it is a male kestrel.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27880\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/kestrel191214s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Slightly larger than the kestrel is the Merlin. It did fly, but I missed it. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27879\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/merlin191214s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The largest raptor seen was the Bald Eagle.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27875\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/eagle191214as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I managed no particularly good shots of a flying Rough-legged Hawk. This one will have to suffice.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27876\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/roughleggedhawk191214as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, when perched, this same female rough-legged posed for me.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27874\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/roughleggedhawk191214bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a bit of an oddity. I believe it to be a dark-morph Red-tailed Hawk. Across the continent, the plumage of this bird is highly variable, although the dark morph is uncommon here.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-27877\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/redtailedhawk191214bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favourite flight shot of the ramble was of the more common local form of Red-tailed Hawk. This is a juvenile bird: the red of its tail has yet to develop and its eyes are yellow.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-27878\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/redtailedhawk191214as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I spent a few hours rambling among raptors. While many were seen perched, this posting favours raptors seen flying. We have two resident falcons, each of which was seen. This is the smaller; it is a male kestrel. Slightly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=27873\">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-27873","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\/27873","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=27873"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27885,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions\/27885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}