{"id":8612,"date":"2013-08-22T08:39:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2013-08-22T08:39:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:39:53","slug":"growing-up-osprey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8612","title":{"rendered":"Growing up osprey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A month after a previous visit, I stopped by an osprey nest on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0<a title=\"Osprey family\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8390\">July 19<\/a>,\u00a0I took this picture of an Osprey mother and her two chicks.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8615\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ospreys130719es.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On August, 20, I took a picture of the same family. Now, the chicks (on the left) are much older and larger. Their plumage has evolved, and they are almost ready to fly.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8613\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ospreyfamily130820s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I managed a satisfying shot comparing adult and chick. The adult, left, has yellow eyes and brown wing feathers. Its chick, right, has orange eyes, and wing feathers that look as if they have been dipped in cream.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8614\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ospreycomparison130820s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latter two pictures were taken on the same jaunt as was the chick surrounded by <a title=\"Bountiful nuisance\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8607\">yellowjackets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A month after a previous visit, I stopped by an osprey nest on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake. On\u00a0July 19,\u00a0I took this picture of an Osprey mother and her two chicks. On August, 20, I took a picture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8612\">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-8612","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\/8612","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=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8624,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions\/8624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}