{"id":2381,"date":"2009-10-31T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2009-10-31T13:06:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T07:36:40","slug":"indian-cormorant-bay-backed-shrike-and-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/indian-cormorant-bay-backed-shrike-and-breakfast.html","title":{"rendered":"Indian Cormorant, Bay backed shrike and breakfast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted here are last of the images from last birding session. It is always nice to see birds gulping their prey.<\/p>\n<p>This cormorant was fishing along with a bunch of its friends. Each time they went in, they would come back with a fish struggling between the beaks. Also read my commentary of watching a <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/pond-at-padmanabhapuram-palace.html\">cormorant hunt<\/a> in the water. They are very swift swimmers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2382\" title=\"indian cormorate\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/indian_cormorate_2.jpg\" alt=\"indian cormorate\" width=\"620\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>An Indian Cormorant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2383\" title=\"bay backed shrike\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bay_backed_shrike.jpg\" alt=\"bay backed shrike\" width=\"620\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bay_backed_shrike.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bay_backed_shrike-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bay backed shrike<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We watched this shrike sitting on a short perch and looking around. It flew out and came back with this centipede (or whatever worm it is) so fast, it must have taken less than a second. The centipede struggled for another 5 seconds before it was consumed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted here are last of the images from last birding session. It is always nice to see birds gulping their prey. This cormorant was fishing along with a bunch of its friends. Each time they went in, they would come back with a fish struggling between the beaks. Also read my commentary of watching a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[91,59],"tags":[136,543,541],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildlife","tag-birding","tag-birds","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xrJt-Cp","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}