{"id":34105,"date":"2025-01-14T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34105"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:54:28","slug":"great-grey-owl-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34105","title":{"rendered":"Great Grey Owl flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 2px 4px 6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: -16px; margin-left: 8px; width: 270px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\"><strong>Great Grey Owl<\/strong>: This is the third of five planned sequential postings on this largest owl.<\/p>\n<p>Having spotted a vole either by sight or hearing, the Great Grey Owl flies to catch it.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Grey takes off from its perch.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34112\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/greatgreyowl240107ls-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And begins to extend its wings. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34109\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/greatgreyowl240107gsccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Great Grey Owl is now flying noiselessly to catch a vole.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34107\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/greatgreyowl240107cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A back view of it flying after something in the field. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34163\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/greatgreyowl240107rsccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a shot of the Great Grey Owl flying back to its perch. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34174\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/greatgreyowl240107qs2ccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Great Grey Owl: This is the third of five planned sequential postings on this largest owl. Having spotted a vole either by sight or hearing, the Great Grey Owl flies to catch it. The Great Grey takes off from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34105\">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-34105","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\/34105","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=34105"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34180,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34105\/revisions\/34180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}