{"id":11582,"date":"2014-09-09T07:24:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11582"},"modified":"2014-09-09T07:44:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T14:44:53","slug":"killdeer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11582","title":{"rendered":"Killdeer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the summer, I wondered why I had not seen a Killdeer, our most common plover. Granted, I had seen a number of other shorebirds: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11013\">Spotted Sandpiper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10674\">American Avocet and Wilson\u2019s Phalarope<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11434\">Semi-palmated Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I finally saw a Killdeer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Killdeer was foraging along the lakeshore.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11585\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/killdeer140808as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Killdeers, as do all plovers, hunt mainly by sight&#8212;unlike sandpipers, that hunt by touch.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11584\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/killdeer140808bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Killdeer retrieves what might be a fish egg. It is quickly\u00a0consumed.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11583\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/killdeer140808cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Throughout the summer, I wondered why I had not seen a Killdeer, our most common plover. Granted, I had seen a number of other shorebirds: Spotted Sandpiper, American Avocet and Wilson\u2019s Phalarope, Semi-palmated Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper. Yesterday, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11582\">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-11582","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\/11582","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=11582"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11582\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}