{"id":7151,"date":"2013-02-11T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2013-02-11T21:44:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:44:34","slug":"a-few-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7151","title":{"rendered":"A few raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The best things seen on yesterday&#8217;s sunny Sunday were raptors. Most were at a considerable distance and so have a\u00a0middling\u00a0image quality; the last bird was near at hand and so is sharpest. Pictures are presented in the order taken.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing seen was a Merlin hunting well off the side of the road.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7155\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/merlin130210s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The setting of a frost-covered tree made it worth photographing this Bald Eagle.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7154\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/eaglebald130210s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a composite showing three views of the same soaring bird. When seen from a great distance, the white on the underside of the wing and the golden colour around the neck prompted me to think this was a Golden Eagle. Alas no, the pictures almost certainly show an\u00a0intermediate\u00a0phase Red-tailed Hawk.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7152\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/redtailedhawk130210cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, the most satisfying image of the day was another intermediate phase Red-tailed Hawk. Some of the richness of the tones can be credited to the hawk, some to the late afternoon winter sun.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7153\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/redtailedhawk130210as2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The best things seen on yesterday&#8217;s sunny Sunday were raptors. Most were at a considerable distance and so have a\u00a0middling\u00a0image quality; the last bird was near at hand and so is sharpest. Pictures are presented in the order taken. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7151\">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-7151","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\/7151","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=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7158,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions\/7158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}