{"id":28604,"date":"2020-04-19T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28604"},"modified":"2020-04-19T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:56:31","slug":"hawk-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28604","title":{"rendered":"Hawk &#038; snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes one doesn&#8217;t know what one has until well after the observation.<\/p>\n<p>As I took the picture, I noticed nothing other than a perched Red-tailed Hawk. When I looked at it on the camera, I noticed that the hawk was holding a stick, possibly for nest building. When I looked at it on the computer, I realized that the stick was a snake. I guessed a species, but when I asked Jakob Dulisse, an experienced local biologist, he eliminated my guess as to a species and opined, western garter snake (<i>Thamnophis elegans<\/i>). OK, not a stick.<\/p>\n<p>A Red-tailed Hawk has captured a western garter snake, <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28611\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/redtailedhawk200419asdmf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>and flies off with it. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28605\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/redtailedhawk200419bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sometimes one doesn&#8217;t know what one has until well after the observation. As I took the picture, I noticed nothing other than a perched Red-tailed Hawk. When I looked at it on the camera, I noticed that the hawk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28604\">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":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-herptiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604","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=28604"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28621,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28604\/revisions\/28621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}