{"id":3747,"date":"2011-12-27T09:31:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2011-12-27T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T19:20:15","slug":"snowy-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"Snowy Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Snowy Owl is a rare visitor to southern BC. But, now and then&#8212;maybe every four or five years&#8212;there is a shortage of lemmings to eat in the arctic and the owls fly farther south in search of food.<\/p>\n<p>I took these pictures on a Boxing Day visit to Ladner. Now, birders around Kootenay Lake are hoping for a visit.<\/p>\n<p>This is one striking bird.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3751\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowyowl111226a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is often seen in pairs.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3749\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowyowl111226c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A friend flies in for a visit.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3750\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowyowl111226b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The owl has a flexible neck.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3748\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/snowyowl111226d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snowy Owl is a rare visitor to southern BC. But, now and then&#8212;maybe every four or five years&#8212;there is a shortage of lemmings to eat in the arctic and the owls fly farther south in search of food. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3747\">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-3747","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\/3747","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=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}