{"id":6939,"date":"2012-12-30T12:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T20:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2012-12-30T21:57:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T05:57:28","slug":"great-horned-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6939","title":{"rendered":"Great Horned Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uncommon, but widespread&#8221; is how one author describes the Great Horned Owl. Uncommon indeed: I had never seen one before. Further, others last saw one around here three months ago. So, it was a delight to spot one yesterday sleeping over a snow bank along the road between New Denver and Kaslo.<\/p>\n<p>A curious aspect of the Great Horned, other than its considerable size, is that it begins courting as early as December. Indeed, this one seemed to already have a\u00a0companion.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Horned Owl sleeps during the day, but this one\u00a0stirred briefly when a noisy snow plough drove by.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6941\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"greathorned121229cs\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/greathorned121229cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The traffic was sparse across this mountain pass, but after a time the owl decided to move farther from the road. It flew to a tree where it appears to snuggle with a\u00a0companion.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6942\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/greathorned121229bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Its daytime; all I want to do is sleep.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6940\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/greathorned121229ds2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;Uncommon, but widespread&#8221; is how one author describes the Great Horned Owl. Uncommon indeed: I had never seen one before. Further, others last saw one around here three months ago. So, it was a delight to spot one yesterday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6939\">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-6939","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\/6939","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=6939"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6939\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}