{"id":2164,"date":"2012-05-05T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T06:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2012-05-06T01:30:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T08:30:48","slug":"osprey-mating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/?p=2164","title":{"rendered":"Osprey Mating"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been about two weeks since I noted they had returned, so I headed out to the Osprey nesting site today. I was hoping to find them on eggs in the nest, but when I arrived the female was sitting there alone. It was not long before the male showed up and I was in a good spot to capture the following series of photos of the Osprey mating.<\/p>\n

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After this he left to return some time later with a fish for her. After she finished eating it in a nearby tree, there was some more mating behaviour. Hopefully it won’t be much longer before they are on eggs and the countdown can begin for the arrival of young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been about two weeks since I noted they had returned, so I headed out to the Osprey nesting site today. I was hoping to find them on eggs in the nest, but when I arrived the female was sitting there alone. It was not long before the male showed up and I was … Continue reading “Osprey Mating”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding-in-british-columbia","tag-osprey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2183,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazym.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}