{"id":10947,"date":"2014-06-26T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10947"},"modified":"2014-06-26T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:15:42","slug":"chicks-abound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10947","title":{"rendered":"Chicks abound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tis the season to see chicks. Here are a few seen over this last week. Of the six pictures shown, three were taken by my visiting nine-year-old grandson, Finn. He took them all when\u00a0nature\u00a0watching on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Even after fledging, nuthatch chicks do not know how\u00a0to feed themselves and continue to be fed by a parent. That the bird on the right is a chick is evident not only by the activity, but also its\u00a0yellow gape and bill.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10952\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/nuthatch140620s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finn found a flicker\u00a0in\u00a0a nest. Again, the bill and the lack of colouring on the head show this to be a chick.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10951\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/flickerchick140621sFFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is my shot of a mother Bald Eagle and her two chicks.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10950\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/eagle140623s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I thought that there wasn&#8217;t much point\u00a0in taking yet another picture of geese, Finn tried\u00a0anyway and turned up something interesting: a leucistic goose&#8212;see the white crown of the female. Two years ago I photographed what\u00a0is probably the same <a title=\"Leucistic goose\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4474\">leucistic goose<\/a>.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10949\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/geese140625s2FFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is my shot of a lonely mallard chick. It was wondering along the shore apparently looking for its mother. It has just picked up a leaf off the lake and promptly ate it.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10950\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mallard140625s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And Finn&#8217;s early morning shot of a merganser mommy and her chicks wins the cuteness award.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10948\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/merganser140625s2FFG.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Finn Fraser Grathwol&#8217;s images are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8216;Tis the season to see chicks. Here are a few seen over this last week. Of the six pictures shown, three were taken by my visiting nine-year-old grandson, Finn. He took them all when\u00a0nature\u00a0watching on his own. Even after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10947\">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-10947","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\/10947","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=10947"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10959,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10947\/revisions\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}