{"id":3569,"date":"2011-12-05T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2011-12-05T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T02:09:22","slug":"great-horned-heron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3569","title":{"rendered":"Great Horned Heron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I admit it: there is no such species of bird as the Great Horned Heron.<\/p>\n<p>However, ornithologists have a habit of suggesting that a species is horned when it sports tufts of feathers on the head. They have done this with the Horned Grebe,\u00a0Horned Lark, and\u00a0Great Horned Owl.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, as I watched the wind lift the feathers on the crown of a Great Blue Heron, I thought: what whimsey to pass the picture off as the rarely seen Great Horned Heron of Kootenay Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the inspiration for that thought.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3570\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/heron111204s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I admit it: there is no such species of bird as the Great Horned Heron. However, ornithologists have a habit of suggesting that a species is horned when it sports tufts of feathers on the head. They have done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3569","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\/3569","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=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}