{"id":1309,"date":"2011-04-01T19:16:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T02:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2011-04-01T19:16:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T02:16:50","slug":"no-april-fooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"No (April) fooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A foray on April 1<sup>st<\/sup>, revealed flowers: crocuses, of course. Although the plant is from Europe, it has gone native. It is found in the wild here but it is not considered to be invasive. The pollen\u2013laden\u00a0anthers did seem to pose the question: I am here, so where are the bees?<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the foray also revealed a few birds: a Dark\u2013eyed Junco, the inevitable Mallard (sometimes the auto focus does choose the correct things), a Song Sparrow, and a Bald Eagle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1310\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/crocus110401s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1311\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/darkeyedjunko110401s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1312\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/mallards110401s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"722\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1313\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/songsparrow110401s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1314\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/baldeagle110401s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A foray on April 1st, revealed flowers: crocuses, of course. Although the plant is from Europe, it has gone native. It is found in the wild here but it is not considered to be invasive. The pollen\u2013laden\u00a0anthers did seem to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}