{"id":3158,"date":"2023-12-13T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2023-12-13T07:46:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:46:01","slug":"memories-from-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/2023\/12\/13\/memories-from-the-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories from the Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmousedown=\"alert('Sorry ... you will need to contact me if you wish to use this photo')\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/photosbydennis\/image\/174201901\/large.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of Dennis Swayze\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fortunate to have Osprey that nest close to home that can be visited when my time is short. Always look forward to their return in late spring\u2026once the rivers begin to flow and the ice is off the many ponds throughout the city. They are late to arrive\u2026simply because their main diet consists of fish and require open water.<br \/>\nOsprey mate for life and all but impossible to tell if it\u2019s always the same pair returning. Other than by size with the female being larger she will have marking on her breast\u2026that I refer to as a necklace, which only makes sense to me. What you\u2019re looking at would be the male\u2026with a very white breast.<\/p>\n<p>Once they return the task of collecting and adding new branches and sticks to the existing nest begins. Will say that some nests have become quite large\u2026almost big enough for Eagles to use.<br \/>\nOn a side-note\u2026Eagles are one of their only predators the other would be a Great Horned Owl.<br \/>\nThe female is usually the one that does all of the  stick arranging\u2026this continues throughout the summer and even after the chicks are born.<\/p>\n<p>Well won\u2019t be seeing Osprey anytime soon\u2026just nice to revisit memories from the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunate to have Osprey that nest close to home that can be visited when my time is short. Always look forward to their return in late spring\u2026once the rivers begin to flow and the ice is off the many ponds throughout the city. They are late to arrive\u2026simply because their main diet consists of fish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mb-birds","tag-osprey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photosbydennis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}