{"id":2943,"date":"2011-09-16T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2011-09-16T10:28:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:28:31","slug":"osprey-gull-kingfisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"Osprey gull kingfisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One might think that, with a title like this, I would include a picture of a gull&#8212;I don&#8217;t. Yet the gull is part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>An adult (probably female) osprey packing a rather large fish stopped at a piling to feast. In mid\u2013September, ospreys leave for Central and South America and the date was September 15<sup>th<\/sup>, so this may be the last osprey I see this year. Alas, it was not at the piling for long, certainly not long enough for it to enjoy its fish, a Largescale Sucker. It was soon harassed and driven off by (of all things) a Ring-billed Gull. I managed no pictures of the interaction, but the second picture shows the osprey retreating with its fish.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, a Belted Kingfisher flew by, so a picture of it is included.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2944\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ospreyfish110915as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2951\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ospreyfish110915bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2946\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kingfisher110915s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One might think that, with a title like this, I would include a picture of a gull&#8212;I don&#8217;t. Yet the gull is part of the story. An adult (probably female) osprey packing a rather large fish stopped at a piling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","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=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}