{"id":8144,"date":"2013-06-21T13:24:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2013-06-21T13:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:52:54","slug":"large-and-sodden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8144","title":{"rendered":"Sodden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is not my normal practice to be out on the Lake during a rainstorm. But, an invitation to help monitor local raptor nests from a boat was too interesting to resist. What I hadn&#8217;t anticipated was how sodden and bedraggled the birds would appear.<\/p>\n<p>Raindrops are apparent in only some of the pictures. Yet, it was raining and at times hard. Of course, I did not limit myself to taking pictures of raptors, so the first two shots are of other things.<\/p>\n<p>A white-tailed buck was browsing by the water&#8217;s edge.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8151\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/whitetaileddeer130620s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Farther along, a Great Blue Heron shows feathers slick with water.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8145\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/heron130620s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If it is possible for eagle chicks to look miserable, then these two high in a tree fit the bill.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8149\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/eaglesnest130620s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nearby the nest was a disheveled adult eagle.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8148\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/eagle130620as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A sub-adult eagle flew by with flight feathers moulting and matted.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8146\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/eagle130620cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My favourite shot of the day is of a sodden osprey showing great dissatisfaction with the situation.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8158\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/osprey130620as5.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It is not my normal practice to be out on the Lake during a rainstorm. But, an invitation to help monitor local raptor nests from a boat was too interesting to resist. What I hadn&#8217;t anticipated was how sodden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8144\">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-8144","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\/8144","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=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8157,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}