{"id":5828,"date":"2012-07-11T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2012-07-12T03:50:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T10:50:48","slug":"feisty-swallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5828","title":{"rendered":"Feisty swallows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A week or so ago, I watched some <a title=\"Swallows bully eagle\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5750\">Tree Swallows bully an Eagle<\/a>. Ok, that makes sense, an eagle would happily eat a swallow chick, so clearly it must be vanquished.<\/p>\n<p>But, what about a heron?<\/p>\n<p>Today, I watched some Tree Swallows\u00a0mercilessly\u00a0attack a Great Blue Heron. It was not the same group of swallows as I had watched the last time. Further, a heron is not partial to eating swallows. Yet, the attack was relentless.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in the case of the eagle bullying, the heron did not retreat&#8212;well, at least it did not retreat before I had retreated. For once the swallows spotted me watching from the shore, the attack shifted. Now, the swallows set to driving me off. They succeeded: I slunk away.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many Tree Swallows dives at a Great Blue Heron in an attempt to drive it away from their nests.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5829\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/heron120711s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A week or so ago, I watched some Tree Swallows bully an Eagle. Ok, that makes sense, an eagle would happily eat a swallow chick, so clearly it must be vanquished. But, what about a heron? Today, I watched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5828\">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-5828","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\/5828","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=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5835,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}