{"id":34834,"date":"2025-08-25T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34834"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T14:48:04","slug":"osprey-captures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34834","title":{"rendered":"Osprey captures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ospreys eat fish. They dive into the lake and use their feet to catch a live fish. They capture ten or more fish a day for the period of five or six months that they are here. That is a good number of fish, considering the profusion of ospreys around the lake.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Yet, try to get a good picture of the osprey lifting a fish from the water. It is a big lake, the capture is very fleeting. And when seen, it is usually rather distant. Getting a good picture of the event is, alas, iffy.<\/p>\n<p>I start with one I got seven years ago, but have waited some time to get another good one.<\/p>\n<p>An osprey drags a male Kokanee from the lake on 2018 August 18.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24434\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/osprey180818as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, Cynthia caught an osprey emerging from the Lake amidst much spray. One cannot tell yet what it might have caught.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34835\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/osprey250823CCFs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In our most dramatic photograph of the day, Cynthia caught the osprey dragging a fish from the Lake. We thought it would have had a Kokanee. It didn&#8217;t. But what is that fish?\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34837\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/osprey250823bCCFs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A moment later I took this.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34836\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/osprey250823as1.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"1008\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ospreys eat fish. They dive into the lake and use their feet to catch a live fish. They capture ten or more fish a day for the period of five or six months that they are here. That is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34834\">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":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34834","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=34834"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34849,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34834\/revisions\/34849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}