{"id":10612,"date":"2014-05-14T16:46:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T23:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10612"},"modified":"2014-05-14T20:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T03:51:42","slug":"blue-winged-teal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10612","title":{"rendered":"Blue-winged Teal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Blue-winged Teal is typically only\u00a0seen around the Lake in the late spring as it migrates north to breed. Two visited this morning.<\/p>\n<p>As one watches\u00a0the Blue-winged Teal swim by, it is easy to wonder about\u00a0its name: Where is the\u00a0blue wing? Certainly, the white facial patch is striking, but otherwise it seems merely a rather small speckled duck.\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10614\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bluewingedteal140514bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, when these ducks\u00a0fly, the powder-blue wing patches, after which they are named, become apparent. Here the ducks\u00a0are lifting off from the Lake amidst a shower of splashed drops.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10613\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/bluewingedteal140514as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Blue-winged Teal is typically only\u00a0seen around the Lake in the late spring as it migrates north to breed. Two visited this morning. As one watches\u00a0the Blue-winged Teal swim by, it is easy to wonder about\u00a0its name: Where is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10612\">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-10612","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\/10612","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=10612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10624,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10612\/revisions\/10624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}