{"id":61,"date":"2010-06-06T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=61"},"modified":"2010-12-26T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T00:00:22","slug":"wife-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Wife to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 5, 2010, I was out on the Lake and watched a drama between an eagle and two ospreys. It is described whimsically below.<\/p>\n<p>The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of the local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/raptors\/ospreys\/index.html\">ospreys<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/raptors\/baldeagles\/index.html\">eagles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>********* story time ********<\/p>\n<p>A recently married man takes a break from domestic duties to take his pet fish for a stroll.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_1s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_1s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_1s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_1s.jpg\"><\/a>He is soon approached by an ardent fish collector cum mugger.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_2s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_2s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_2s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mugger is exceedingly persistent and the chase goes on and on.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_3s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_3s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_3s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wife takes a dim view of this and heads out to help.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_4s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_4s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_4s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She attacks from above and behind; the mugger rolls over; the husband and pet fish head home.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_5s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_5s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ospreychase100605_5s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 5, 2010, I was out on the Lake and watched a drama between an eagle and two ospreys. It is described whimsically below. The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of the local ospreys and eagles. ********* &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=61\">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-61","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\/61","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=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}