{"id":6131,"date":"2012-08-07T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T21:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2012-08-07T17:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:09:29","slug":"6131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6131","title":{"rendered":"Two kings feasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two kings were feasting in a park: a\u00a0kingfisher and a kingbird.<\/p>\n<p>The high water has left the grassy area on the southwest side of Kokanee Creek Park closer to being a marsh than a meadow. The water has attracted mosquitoes, gnats, dragonflies and fish (we watched a heron catch one). The kingfisher was probably after fish, but the kingbird was feasting on dragonflies.<\/p>\n<p>A female Belted Kingfisher sits in a tree from which it would regularly fly off and catch something.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6132\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/kingfisher120806s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>An Eastern Kingbird (it&#8217;s found here in the West, too) also hunts from a tree.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6135\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/easternkingbird120806as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>It spots something and heads out.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6134\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/easternkingbird120806bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kingbird returns with a golden-looking dragonfly in its bill. It was soon eaten.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6133\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/easternkingbird120806cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were meadowhawks (a type of dragonfly) all over the marsh. This one looks to be a female cherry-faced meadowhawk. Possibly this is what the kingbird caught.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6136\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rubyfacedmeadowhawk120806s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two kings were feasting in a park: a\u00a0kingfisher and a kingbird. The high water has left the grassy area on the southwest side of Kokanee Creek Park closer to being a marsh than a meadow. The water has attracted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6131\">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":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","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=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6143,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions\/6143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}