{"id":9564,"date":"2014-01-17T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9564"},"modified":"2014-01-18T18:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T02:55:34","slug":"prairie-falcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9564","title":{"rendered":"Prairie Falcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We have falcons around Kootenay Lake, but only two species are normally encountered: Merlin, Kestrel. Merlins have appeared in this <a title=\"Merlin\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6445\">blog<\/a>, but my nicest shots of them are on the main <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/raptors\/falcons\/index.html\">website<\/a>. Two postings about Kestrels have been: <a title=\"Kestrel bonanza\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2374\">Kestrel bonanza<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Kestrel versus vole\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9545\">Kestrel versus vole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is the first Prairie Falcon I have seen around here, or indeed, anywhere. This one has been seen by others off and on for the last month on the Creston Flats. At very least, it is a rare visitor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9566\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/prariefalcon140115as2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We have falcons around Kootenay Lake, but only two species are normally encountered: Merlin, Kestrel. Merlins have appeared in this blog, but my nicest shots of them are on the main website. Two postings about Kestrels have been: Kestrel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9564\">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-9564","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\/9564","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=9564"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9564\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}