{"id":29246,"date":"2020-07-23T08:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29246"},"modified":"2020-07-23T08:48:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:48:59","slug":"finns-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29246","title":{"rendered":"Finn&#8217;s chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I went out to visit local nature with Finn, my 15-year-old grandson. We took many pictures. Here are two that Finn took of chicks being fed.<\/p>\n<p>We started the day by watching a flicker father feed his chicks. Daddy has closed his eyes as he regurgitates ant&#8217;s eggs from his crop for one of his chicks.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29247\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/flicker200721asFFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We then visited an osprey nest, where Finn managed a superb shot (one that I have long sought): an osprey parent delivering a fish to its excited chicks in the nest. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29248\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/osprey200721sFFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:10px\">Finn&#8217;s pictures are used with permission<\/spam><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I went out to visit local nature with Finn, my 15-year-old grandson. We took many pictures. Here are two that Finn took of chicks being fed. We started the day by watching a flicker father feed his chicks. Daddy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29246\">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-29246","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\/29246","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=29246"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29260,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29246\/revisions\/29260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}