{"id":28954,"date":"2020-06-11T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28954"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T23:22:39","slug":"vultures-matutinal-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28954","title":{"rendered":"Vulture&#8217;s matutinal ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When one watches a Turkey Vulture&#8217;s morning, it certainly seems to reveal a ritualistic behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The day begins with the vulture spreading its wings to warm then in the early morning sunlight.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28956\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turkeyvulture200610as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then comes the obligatory stretching of the wings. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28958\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turkeyvulture200610cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the pooping. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28957\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turkeyvulture200610bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There follows more stretching, while scanning the ground below for a possible breakfast. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28963\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turkeyvulture200610fs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is time to head off and look for tasty carrion. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28959\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turkeyvulture200610ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK, this is going to take a bit more effort. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28955\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/turkeyvulture200610es2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When one watches a Turkey Vulture&#8217;s morning, it certainly seems to reveal a ritualistic behaviour. The day begins with the vulture spreading its wings to warm then in the early morning sunlight. Then comes the obligatory stretching of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28954\">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-28954","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\/28954","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=28954"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28967,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28954\/revisions\/28967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}