{"id":31395,"date":"2021-11-21T19:08:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31395"},"modified":"2021-11-21T19:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T03:08:33","slug":"magpie-feasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31395","title":{"rendered":"Magpie feasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We do not have many magpies around Kootenay Lake. This bird favours open country, and most of the lake is rimmed with forests. However, if you know where to look, we do have a few.<\/p>\n<p>Black-billed Magpies have a wide-ranging diet: fruit, grain, insects, small mammals, and bird&#8217;s eggs. Unexpectedly, carrion is a particular favourite. Before today, I had never before seen magpies feast upon it.<\/p>\n<p>A Black-billed Magpie flies in. What attracted it?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31401\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magpie211121as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quickly, it was evident that the appeal was the decaying carcass of a deer.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31402\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magpie211121bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It set to work swallowing endless bits and pieces of the carcass.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31404\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magpie211121ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally the magpie would fly back into the trees with a mouthful.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31406\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magpie211121es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is good stuff; you should try it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31403\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/magpie211121cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We do not have many magpies around Kootenay Lake. This bird favours open country, and most of the lake is rimmed with forests. However, if you know where to look, we do have a few. Black-billed Magpies have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31395\">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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395","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=31395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31407,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31395\/revisions\/31407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}