{"id":12733,"date":"2015-02-20T17:39:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T01:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12733"},"modified":"2015-02-20T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T04:16:09","slug":"first-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12733","title":{"rendered":"First swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I saw my first swans of the year this morning: two Trumpeters. Mind you, I discovered later that I had not been the first to spot\u00a0them, but that did not diminish the delight in seeing them once again.<\/p>\n<p>Both Trumpeter and Tundra Swans migrate through our region in the spring and sometimes in the fall. Many people watch for their passage.<\/p>\n<p>Two pictures of this morning&#8217;s Trumpeter Swans are below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12735\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trumpeterswan150220as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12734\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/trumpeterswan150220bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I saw my first swans of the year this morning: two Trumpeters. Mind you, I discovered later that I had not been the first to spot\u00a0them, but that did not diminish the delight in seeing them once again. Both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12733\">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-12733","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\/12733","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=12733"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12743,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12733\/revisions\/12743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}