{"id":35862,"date":"2026-09-19T15:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35862"},"modified":"2026-09-19T15:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:32:22","slug":"heron-and-kokanee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35862","title":{"rendered":"Heron and Kokanee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I went looking for bears catching fish, but saw none. Just as I was about to leave, a Great Blue Heron was seen hunting in the stream. It was very slowly moving along the channel while intently watching the water. With a sudden grab, it bent to catch a rather large Kokanee salmon and then lifted it from the water. It then carried its catch into the woods. This Kokanee was, if anything, a bit larger than the fish that was seen with the earlier heron picture (blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35850).<\/p>\n<p>A Great Blue Heron catches a rather large Kokanee salmon.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35866\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/heron_fish260918s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I went looking for bears catching fish, but saw none. Just as I was about to leave, a Great Blue Heron was seen hunting in the stream. It was very slowly moving along the channel while intently watching the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35862\">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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35862","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\/35862","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=35862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35869,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35862\/revisions\/35869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}