{"id":3327,"date":"2011-11-04T16:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2011-11-05T07:10:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T14:10:56","slug":"herons-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3327","title":{"rendered":"Herons abound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have experienced an upsurge in heron visits during the last couple of weeks. The same thing happened at this time a year ago. I wrote about it then in a posting entitled <a title=\"Herons return\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=473\">Herons return<\/a>, and noted that now that the ospreys had left, the herons moved more freely about the region.<\/p>\n<p>I see a heron every couple of days now. Indeed, yesterday, I saw five of them together&#8212;a somewhat unusual sight. Four had settled on some pilings and then a fifth flew past. Nice!<\/p>\n<p>Usually these observations are made in the early morning light, a time when pictures of distant birds present technical problems. But, I attach one picture I did manage of a recent heron as it was flying. It serves as a token for all this activity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3328\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/heron111028s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have experienced an upsurge in heron visits during the last couple of weeks. The same thing happened at this time a year ago. I wrote about it then in a posting entitled Herons return, and noted that now that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3327\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3327","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\/3327","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=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}