{"id":34772,"date":"2025-08-03T16:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34772"},"modified":"2025-08-03T16:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:54:31","slug":"flying-birds-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34772","title":{"rendered":"Flying birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The advantage of photographing a flying bird is that one can often see more of the bird because the wings may be spread.<\/p>\n<p>A female Brewer&#8217;s Blackbird flies by.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34773\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/brewersblackbird250731as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Belted Kingfisher flies by.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34774\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/kingfisher250801as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Killdeer tried to lead me away from its nest, so I obliged and followed it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34781\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/killdeer250803s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two postings ago, I showed an osprey carrying a intact fish\u00a0 &lt;blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34737&gt;. This fish, however, has already had its tasty head eaten by the osprey. This is often the way a fish gets delivered to the nest.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34775\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/osprey250726as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" w\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return falseidth=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The advantage of photographing a flying bird is that one can often see more of the bird because the wings may be spread. A female Brewer&#8217;s Blackbird flies by. A Belted Kingfisher flies by. A Killdeer tried to lead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34772\">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-34772","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\/34772","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=34772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34783,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34772\/revisions\/34783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}