{"id":34239,"date":"2025-02-05T19:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34239"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T00:07:04","slug":"stellars-jays-vs-merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34239","title":{"rendered":"Stellar&#8217;s Jays vs hawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The birds were clearly agitated! A wild persistent cawing drew me towards some tall conifers, alerting me to the possible presence of a predator. Our local Stellar&#8217;s Jays were causing a loud commotion, hopping and darting between branches trying to harass something. And there, deep amongst the shaded trees was what we initially thought might be a Merlin. Upon closer examination, this small yellow-eyed accipiter was most likely a juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk busily eating a catch. Mind you, the raptor only remained there for a moment or two, and then flew off &#8212; there was barely time enough for a picture. <\/p>\n<p>A small sharpie (?) looks up from its meal and decides that it is time to move on. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34240\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/merlin250205ccfs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The birds were clearly agitated! A wild persistent cawing drew me towards some tall conifers, alerting me to the possible presence of a predator. Our local Stellar&#8217;s Jays were causing a loud commotion, hopping and darting between branches trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-34239","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\/34239","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34239"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34341,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34239\/revisions\/34341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}