{"id":34928,"date":"2025-09-19T07:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34928"},"modified":"2025-09-19T07:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:57:22","slug":"osprey-and-fish-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34928","title":{"rendered":"Osprey and fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days and in probably the last osprey shot of this year, I have twice seen an osprey packing a fish. Neither was as close or detailed as the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34824\">earlier one<\/a>, but were satisfactory none the less.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, there is a question of why, for these pictures and the earlier one, the flying osprey has its mouth open. This seems often to be the case with a osprey carrying a fish.<\/p>\n<p>The fish is a Kokanee.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34930\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/osprey_fish250916s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also a Kokanee fish, this one was taken just as the sun got up.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34929\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/osprey_fish250913s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the last few days and in probably the last osprey shot of this year, I have twice seen an osprey packing a fish. Neither was as close or detailed as the earlier one, but were satisfactory none the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34928\">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-34928","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\/34928","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=34928"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34953,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions\/34953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}