{"id":12655,"date":"2015-01-28T09:48:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2015-01-28T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T05:05:22","slug":"hunting-flotilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12655","title":{"rendered":"Hunting flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing else on the Lake looks similar to a\u00a0fleet of Common Mergansers in hunting formation.<\/p>\n<p>The birds spread apart as they\u00a0race across the water; their heads are down as they scour the shallows for fish. The sight is reminiscent of\u00a0a fleet of frigates searching the depths for U-boats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12656\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/merganser150127s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nothing else on the Lake looks similar to a\u00a0fleet of Common Mergansers in hunting formation. The birds spread apart as they\u00a0race across the water; their heads are down as they scour the shallows for fish. The sight is reminiscent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12655\">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-12655","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\/12655","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=12655"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12664,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions\/12664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}