{"id":12713,"date":"2015-02-13T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T00:33:30","slug":"wood-duck-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12713","title":{"rendered":"Wood Duck of winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wood Ducks go unreported around Kootenay Lake in the winter months of December, January, and February. Occasionally one has been seen in the larger region in February, but that is rare. So, I hadn&#8217;t expected to see a female along the shore this morning. When I showed the picture to Derek Kite, he said, &#8220;I wonder if it is the same one I saw this January. Maybe we have had a Wood Duck here all winter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Wood Duck stands in the snow in Derek Kite&#8217;s picture of January 11<sup>th<\/sup>.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12715\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/woodduck150113sDK.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is possibly the same duck, now seen on February 13<sup>th<\/sup>.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12714\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/woodduck150213s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Derek Kite&#8217;s picture is used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Wood Ducks go unreported around Kootenay Lake in the winter months of December, January, and February. Occasionally one has been seen in the larger region in February, but that is rare. So, I hadn&#8217;t expected to see a female &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12713\">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-12713","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\/12713","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=12713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12722,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions\/12722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}