{"id":23598,"date":"2015-09-30T22:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T22:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23598"},"modified":"2015-09-30T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T22:44:35","slug":"kamchatka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/kamchatka\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamchatka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where the geo thermal hotspots burst<br \/>\nFrom the fissures underground<br \/>\nSpluttering geysers bask in sunlight<br \/>\nAnd diadems of sound<br \/>\nLots of Steller Sea Eagles<br \/>\nGather for their feast<br \/>\nUnbelievable numbers of salmon<br \/>\nTo become  deceased<\/p>\n<p>These very handsome dark birds<br \/>\nWith a white glance for a tail<br \/>\nAnd talons of rich yellow<br \/>\nOn their six foot wings they sail<br \/>\nWith massive beaks they find and eat<br \/>\nFrozen salmon they<br \/>\nMight let the odd Golden Eagle<br \/>\nShare their brunch<br \/>\nBut may mob them right away<br \/>\nDespite the hunger still they share<br \/>\nStrips the frozen flesh, aware<br \/>\nThat in the water around about<br \/>\n8 million salmon will be out<\/p>\n<p>Laying their eggs And dying they<br \/>\nAre a source of protein come what may<br \/>\nAll the eagles are well fed<br \/>\nOn prime sized fish who are falling dead<br \/>\nKamchatka peninsular is the place<br \/>\nThe sea of Okhotsk we will face<br \/>\nFrom japan to Russia they do fly<br \/>\nFor  a stocked up larder<br \/>\nYou now know why<\/p>\n<p>In an around this marvellous place<br \/>\nSome 12000 bears may show their face<br \/>\nAfter hibernation they must address<br \/>\nTheir fur by rolling they confess<br \/>\nTo having a rather dirty coat<br \/>\nAnd a good roll in the  thickest snow<br \/>\nCleans the fibres as we know<br \/>\nThis is wild nature in the raw<br \/>\nThis what the wilderness is for<br \/>\nSpring is coming at a pace<br \/>\nSnow melt joins in the big race<br \/>\nTo afford the plants a chance to grow<br \/>\nTo fill the world with flowers you know<br \/>\nRich green carpets just evolve<br \/>\nWith lots of puzzles now to solve<br \/>\nDucks will quack  and flowers will flower<br \/>\nA short time changing every  hour<br \/>\nWinters are cold and take their toll<br \/>\nOn the wild ones  on a fighting roll<br \/>\nBuilding fat and storing too<br \/>\nSome energy to just get through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where the geo thermal hotspots burst From the fissures underground Spluttering geysers bask in sunlight And diadems of sound Lots of Steller Sea Eagles Gather for their feast Unbelievable numbers of salmon To become deceased These very handsome dark birds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/kamchatka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems","category-sea-birds-and-bird-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23603,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598\/revisions\/23603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}