{"id":12803,"date":"2015-03-02T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T23:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12803"},"modified":"2015-03-02T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T23:10:24","slug":"dabble-pits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12803","title":{"rendered":"Dabble pits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12805\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12805\" class=\"wp-image-12805\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mallards111015s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Dabbling mallards stick their tails in the air as<br \/>their bills sweep the shallows for things to eat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Waterfowl adopt one of two different\u00a0foraging techniques: diving or dabbling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Divers, such as loons, grebes, mergansers, might be seen anywhere on the Lake, but are often found far from shore.<\/p>\n<p>Dabblers, such as mallards, geese, and swans, generally forage in the shallows close to shore so\u00a0their bills can sweep\u00a0the bottom for things to eat. Little pits are left where the bills have probed. These pits are revealed during the low water of late winter and early spring.<\/p>\n<p>Dabble pits are revealed during low water.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12804\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/dabblepits150302s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Waterfowl adopt one of two different\u00a0foraging techniques: diving or dabbling.\u00a0 Divers, such as loons, grebes, mergansers, might be seen anywhere on the Lake, but are often found far from shore. Dabblers, such as mallards, geese, and swans, generally forage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12803\">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-12803","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\/12803","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=12803"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12815,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12803\/revisions\/12815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}