{"id":8368,"date":"2013-07-16T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2013-07-16T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:07:23","slug":"turkey-vultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8368","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Vultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turkey Vultures have increased their presence in southern BC over the last dozen, or so, years. Yet, they are still not so common around here that a sighting doesn&#8217;t merit a picture or two. Sunday noon, I watched five Turkey Vultures soaring as they searched for lunch. Occasionally, two were close enough to appear in the same shot.<\/p>\n<p>During the time I watched, they did not find a carcass, but watching them search for one reminded me of one of my favourite puns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are three views of the vultures as they searched for carrion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8369\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turkeyvulture130714cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8370\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turkeyvulture130714bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8371\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/turkeyvulture130714as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Turkey Vultures have increased their presence in southern BC over the last dozen, or so, years. Yet, they are still not so common around here that a sighting doesn&#8217;t merit a picture or two. Sunday noon, I watched five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8368\">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-8368","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\/8368","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=8368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8378,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8368\/revisions\/8378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}