{"id":35674,"date":"2026-07-13T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35674"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:13:30","slug":"two-big-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35674","title":{"rendered":"Two big birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning, I watched both an osprey eating a fish and a heron flying. Each bird is rather large, having wing spans of over about 1.8 meters.<\/p>\n<p>An (likely a male) Osprey finishes eating a fish at the tail.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35676\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/osreyeating260712as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Great Blue Heron is beginning to gain its breeding plumage.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35675\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/heron260712as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yesterday morning, I watched both an osprey eating a fish and a heron flying. Each bird is rather large, having wing spans of over about 1.8 meters. An (likely a male) Osprey finishes eating a fish at the tail. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35674\">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-35674","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\/35674","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=35674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35677,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35674\/revisions\/35677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}