{"id":32606,"date":"2023-06-30T17:34:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T00:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32606"},"modified":"2023-06-30T17:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T00:34:38","slug":"heron-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32606","title":{"rendered":"Heron &#038; fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Great Blue Heron is a patient bird. Yesterday, it spent an hour on a dock ramp just watching for a fish before it caught a small meal.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be an adult female heron. It has a white crown, but even though it is breeding season there is only scant evidence of plumes on its head and neck.<\/p>\n<p>It spent most of the hour staring at the water off the edge of the ramp. It would occasionally walk a short distance and stretch to its full height but was fairly dedicated to the task of watching for a tasty fish.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32609\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/heron230629as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once, it had a good scratch.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32607\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/heron230629bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And once, it saw something in the water and dove in, only to come up empty.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32608\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/heron230629cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a second dive into the Lake, the heron did catch a fish.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32613\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/heron230629ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And swallowed it. The gullet is swollen and the tail is visible. The heron then flew off. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32614\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/heron230629es.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Great Blue Heron is a patient bird. Yesterday, it spent an hour on a dock ramp just watching for a fish before it caught a small meal. This seems to be an adult female heron. It has a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32606\">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":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32606","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\/32606","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=32606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32617,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32606\/revisions\/32617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}