{"id":9814,"date":"2014-02-13T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T22:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2014-02-13T14:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T22:18:46","slug":"great-gray-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9814","title":{"rendered":"Great Gray Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Birds of British Columbia (Vol. 2, 1990) describes the Great Gray Owl as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An uncommon resident in the northern interior and rare resident to the southern interior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Few bird enthusiasts around here have seen one, but today in Kaslo,\u00a0Lorraine Symmes spotted one and alerted Dirk Pidcock, who took these pictures. He kindly let me post them so some of the rest of us could enjoy this rarity.<\/p>\n<p>Two views of the same Great Gray Owl<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9815\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/greatgreyowl140213sDP.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dirk Pidcock&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Birds of British Columbia (Vol. 2, 1990) describes the Great Gray Owl as: An uncommon resident in the northern interior and rare resident to the southern interior. Few bird enthusiasts around here have seen one, but today in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9814\">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-9814","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\/9814","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=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9819,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions\/9819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}