{"id":35563,"date":"2026-05-17T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35563"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:37:10","slug":"osprey-interloper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35563","title":{"rendered":"Osprey interloper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a calm time for the nesting osprey. The female was sitting on unseen eggs and occasionally turning them over, and the male went out hunting for a fish for his partner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then, an interloper came by.<\/p>\n<p>The male Osprey heads out to catch a fish.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35567\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/osprey260515as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While he was away, the female received an unwelcome visitor. It was another male osprey apparently looking for an opportunity. As he was preparing to land, she recognized him as an interloper and stood up and squawked at him to go away.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35565\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/osprey260515cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Being rejected, the interloper ceased trying to alight, and flew off. Now, it took me some time to figure out how she recognized him as being different from her partner. I am not sure how she did it, but it seems that he has slightly different markings on his crown.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35564\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/osprey260515ds2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then her partner returned having not found a fish. She accepted him immediately.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35566\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/osprey260515bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It was a calm time for the nesting osprey. The female was sitting on unseen eggs and occasionally turning them over, and the male went out hunting for a fish for his partner.\u00a0 Then, an interloper came by. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35563\">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-35563","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\/35563","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=35563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35571,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35563\/revisions\/35571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}