{"id":33034,"date":"2018-07-11T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T12:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=33034"},"modified":"2018-07-10T23:53:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T04:53:21","slug":"hoos-watching-my-garden-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2018\/07\/11\/hoos-watching-my-garden-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoo’s Watching My Garden Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ValleyBiz Story by Shauna Klekta | <\/p>\n

Do you ever get that feeling you are being watched? <\/p>\n

This year in June, while working in our garden, I looked up to see I was under a watchful eye. In fact, it was not one but two owlets peering down from their perch about 25 feet up in a spruce tree on the edge of the driveway. <\/p>\n

Mother owl, a great horned owl, was hanging out in a more treed area of our yard. <\/p>\n

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Within a short time, one of the fledglings took flight, landing a short distance away. The other owlet was a little more timid and preferred to retreat to the nest higher up in the tree. <\/p>\n

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Within a few days the second of the two ventured out of the nest as well. <\/p>\n

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For several weeks we would occasionally catch a glimpse of them while walking in the yard and sometimes hear their calls at night. <\/p>\n

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Our little owl family seems to have moved on leaving the evening air little quieter and my gardening time a little less eventful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ValleyBiz Story by Shauna Klekta | Do you ever get that feeling you are being watched? This year in June, while working in our garden, I looked up to see I was under a watchful eye. In fact, it was not one but two owlets peering down from their perch about 25 feet up in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-33034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}