{"id":28517,"date":"2020-04-10T16:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28517"},"modified":"2020-04-11T09:13:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T16:13:41","slug":"shrike-while-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28517","title":{"rendered":"Shrike while hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have posted a handful of shots of the Northern Shrike in the last month (see, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28484\">this<\/a>, in particular). So, why more? This is a case of <em>shrike while the iron is hot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This peculiar bird is hunting around here briefly before heading north to breed. On previous occasions, I have seen it in Kokanee Creek Park in the grasslands adjacent to the Lake. Alas, on 8<sup>th<\/sup> April, the Park was closed (it&#8217;s a covid thing). The following day, a shrike appeared at my home. OK, I had to record the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Northern Shrike perched in a bush outside my bedroom window.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28519\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/northernshrike200409as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And soon flew off &#8212; seen here just entering the camera frame. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28520\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/northernshrike200409bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have posted a handful of shots of the Northern Shrike in the last month (see, this, in particular). So, why more? This is a case of shrike while the iron is hot. This peculiar bird is hunting around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28517\">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-28517","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\/28517","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=28517"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28529,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28517\/revisions\/28529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}