{"id":7761,"date":"2013-05-17T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T23:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7761"},"modified":"2013-05-17T21:57:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T04:57:55","slug":"osprey-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7761","title":{"rendered":"Osprey flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Osprey is the iconic bird of Kootenay Lake. Indeed, summer often brings 20 to 30 osprey nests on the West Arm of the Lake. So, what better topic for frequent treatment? Here are three shots taken this morning while I was merely killing time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m home.&#8221; A male Osprey arrives at a nest, and the female barely looks up.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7762\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/osprey130517cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The female Osprey soars overhead and shows off the striking pattern of the underside of the wings.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7763\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/osprey130517bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A male Osprey flies by.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7764\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/osprey130517s2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Osprey is the iconic bird of Kootenay Lake. Indeed, summer often brings 20 to 30 osprey nests on the West Arm of the Lake. So, what better topic for frequent treatment? Here are three shots taken this morning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7761\">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-7761","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\/7761","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=7761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7767,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7761\/revisions\/7767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}