{"id":34873,"date":"2025-09-06T17:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T00:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34873"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:12:03","slug":"heron-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34873","title":{"rendered":"Heron and"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a group of herons by the lakeside. Now, the Great Blue Heron is a solitary creature during the fall and winter, so this was presumably a group of siblings. At first I notice two together, but in all counted five but not always close together.<\/p>\n<p>Two juvenile Great Blue Herons on the lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34881\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/heron250905as3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A heron landing is slowed by dragging feet, but maintained lift by deploying its alula on its wings. The alula are the short feathers in the centre top of the wing. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34882\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/heron250905as2CCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some herons were seen in the the direction of the land.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34876\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/heron250905bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A characteristic of young birds is that they are frequently curious about humans. This one flew right over me always looking down. When they are older, herons just fly away.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34880\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/heron250905cs3.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, I published a blog that showed a juvenile male Pileated Woodpecker (blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34868). It had only the faintest red moustache and yellow eyes. Now, either it 0r a brother has more developed features.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34874\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/pileatedwoodpecker250904s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a group of herons by the lakeside. Now, the Great Blue Heron is a solitary creature during the fall and winter, so this was presumably a group of siblings. At first I notice two together, but in all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34873\">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-34873","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\/34873","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=34873"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35024,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34873\/revisions\/35024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}