{"id":10358,"date":"2014-04-24T14:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10358"},"modified":"2014-05-03T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T22:33:15","slug":"wood-duck-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10358","title":{"rendered":"Wood Duck visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Wood Duck is one of the most stunningly pretty of all waterfowl,&#8221; is the plausible claim of Cornell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Wood_Duck\/id\" target=\"_blank\">All About Birds<\/a> website. The trouble with this bonny bird is that it normally hangs out in marshes and is wary of being approached. My sightings have usually involved bushwhacking and gumboots. Yet, for the last three days, Wood Ducks have visited me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although it was the third time these two couples had\u00a0come by, this was the first time they didn&#8217;t flush before I could take pictures. This time, the ducks seemed unaware that I was standing nearby in the rain and low light of dawn.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10362\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/woodduck140424as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They even came ashore in front of me,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/woodduck140424cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and\u00a0wandered about,<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10359\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/woodduck140424ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>before\u00a0heading farther along the lakeshore.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10361\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/woodduck140424bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8220;The Wood Duck is one of the most stunningly pretty of all waterfowl,&#8221; is the plausible claim of Cornell&#8217;s All About Birds website. The trouble with this bonny bird is that it normally hangs out in marshes and is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10451,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10358\/revisions\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}