{"id":4758,"date":"2012-04-12T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2012-04-29T06:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:54:55","slug":"ospreys-coyote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4758","title":{"rendered":"Ospreys, coyote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One can divide the lakeside year into two seasons: no ospreys, ospreys.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of an osprey on the West Arm yesterday marked the beginning of our osprey season. Mind you, a few other ospreys have already been spotted elsewhere in the region, but this was my first.<\/p>\n<p>This osprey landed on a piling near me on April 11 as I was watching the <a title=\"Excavator out\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4749\">removal of the\u00a0excavator<\/a>. This morning it returned and added a stick. We may get a nest.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4760\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/osprey120411as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also unexpectedly during the excavator removal, a coyote wandered past me within about \u00a0five meters. I didn&#8217;t manage a picture of it until it was somewhat farther along the shore.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4759\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/coyote120411s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; One can divide the lakeside year into two seasons: no ospreys, ospreys. The arrival of an osprey on the West Arm yesterday marked the beginning of our osprey season. Mind you, a few other ospreys have already been spotted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4758\">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":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","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=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5010,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}