{"id":34785,"date":"2025-08-08T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34785"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:55:30","slug":"heron-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34785","title":{"rendered":"Heron nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Locally, there are maybe a half-dozen Great Blue Heron nests, but none was easy to find and all were inaccessibly distant. One of the nests had two fully grown chicks which spent their time exercising their wings and preening. They will soon fly.<\/p>\n<p>Two Great Blue Heron chicks stand in their nest. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34786\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/heronnest250807s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Locally, there are maybe a half-dozen Great Blue Heron nests, but none was easy to find and all were inaccessibly distant. One of the nests had two fully grown chicks which spent their time exercising their wings and preening. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34785\">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-34785","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\/34785","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=34785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34790,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34785\/revisions\/34790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}