{"id":4979,"date":"2012-04-27T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4979"},"modified":"2012-04-29T06:46:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:46:34","slug":"casting-a-pellet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4979","title":{"rendered":"Casting a pellet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regurgitation is not a warm and fuzzy topic. Yet, it is an integral part of being a raptor or an owl.<\/p>\n<p>When a bird of prey eats another animal, it generally consumes everything: meat, bones, fur, feet and bills. The\u00a0indigestible\u00a0portions are collected as a pellet in the bird&#8217;s gizzard and now and then is cast out. Last Sunday, I watched a kestrel cast a pellet.<\/p>\n<p>The kestrel was sitting on a utility wire.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4983\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kestrelpallet120422a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It began to cough as if choking on something.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4982\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kestrelpallet120422b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pellet appeared in its mouth and was ejected.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4981\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kestrelpallet120422c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good, now that that&#8217;s over with and I&#8217;m out of here.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4980\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kestrelpallet120422d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Regurgitation is not a warm and fuzzy topic. Yet, it is an integral part of being a raptor or an owl. When a bird of prey eats another animal, it generally consumes everything: meat, bones, fur, feet and bills. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4979\">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-4979","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\/4979","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=4979"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4979\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}