{"id":246,"date":"2011-12-18T18:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=246"},"modified":"2017-03-25T18:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T13:18:44","slug":"three-kingfishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Three Kingfishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have commented earlier on the <b>Rule of Three<\/b> in the bird life of Kashmir. True to the rule, three species of kingfishers are commonly observed in Kashmir &#8211; the pied, common and white-throated kingfishers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/kingfisher_p.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>One of life&#039;s little joys is sitting on the banks of the Jehlum and watching a family of <b>Pied kingfishers<\/b> fly past in perfect formation &#8211; think of a fly-by of minutiarised Sukhoi fighter-jets on parade.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/kingfisher_wb.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The <b>White-throated kingfisher<\/b> lends a dash of colour to the bleak winterscape, while the <b>Common kingfisher<\/b> is, well, common. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/kingfisher_c.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/images\/sign.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have commented earlier on the Rule of Three in the bird life of Kashmir. True to the rule, three species of kingfishers are commonly observed in Kashmir &#8211; the pied, common and white-throated kingfishers. One of life&#039;s little joys is sitting on the banks of the Jehlum and watching a family of Pied kingfishers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kashmir","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirnetwork.com\/justju\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}