{"id":31803,"date":"2022-05-18T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31803"},"modified":"2022-05-18T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T03:28:25","slug":"nelsons-horned-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31803","title":{"rendered":"Nelson&#8217;s Horned Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I have photographed the Great Horned Owl in Nelson. But, here it was with its partner and its three chicks, the latter in down. The spot could be considered as ideal for raising a family &#8212; just think of all of those pigeons for food. And the admiring crowd of people are probably not much of a nuisance for they are far below.<\/p>\n<p>I visited them early this morning in a light rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The one adult sitting alone was probably the male.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31804\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/greathornedowl220518as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere a lone downy was still sleeping.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31808\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/greathornedowl220518ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another downy chick was resting beside a sleepy parent, probably the female,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31806\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/greathornedowl220518bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That chick looked at me wide awake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31807\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/greathornedowl220518cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is the first time I have photographed the Great Horned Owl in Nelson. But, here it was with its partner and its three chicks, the latter in down. The spot could be considered as ideal for raising a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=31803\">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-31803","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\/31803","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=31803"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31811,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31803\/revisions\/31811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}