{"id":4590,"date":"2012-03-31T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2012-03-31T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T15:16:42","slug":"heron-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4590","title":{"rendered":"Heron harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had assumed that my posting about the <a title=\"Ogopogo\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4559\">ogopogo<\/a> would be the last one for March, but I had counted on neither\u00a0a\u00a0<a title=\"Train wreck\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4584\">train wreck<\/a>\u00a0nor many agitated herons. Ah well, life doesn&#8217;t follow my agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning I received a message from Nicole Tremblay: over a dozen herons in Balfour are being\u00a0harassed\u00a0by an eagle.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived, there were perhaps a half-dozen herons in the air and more in the trees. They came and went with urgency. The sub-adult eagle causing the ruckus was probably the same one earlier\u00a0<a title=\"Eagle &amp; otter\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4278\">spotted harassing an otter<\/a> and <a title=\"Playing catchup\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4516\">hunting farther down the Lake<\/a>. Although the eagle chased, I saw no evidence that it was successful in downing a heron. Finally, it seems to have left.<\/p>\n<p>I had never seen so many herons together. The five pictures, below, show\u00a0herons in the trees, herons in the air, but they start with the sub-adult eagle that caused the ruckus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4591\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eagle120330s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4607\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/heron120330ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4608\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/heron120330cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4592\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/herons120330bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4593\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/herons120330as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I had assumed that my posting about the ogopogo would be the last one for March, but I had counted on neither\u00a0a\u00a0train wreck\u00a0nor many agitated herons. Ah well, life doesn&#8217;t follow my agenda. Yesterday morning I received a message &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4590\">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-4590","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\/4590","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=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}