{"id":13151,"date":"2015-03-31T07:13:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13151"},"modified":"2015-03-31T20:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:06:50","slug":"march-goulash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13151","title":{"rendered":"March goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>March closes with a handful of birds that just did not make the cut to have a posting of their own.<\/p>\n<p>The first local sightings of the Eurasian Collared Dove\u00a0were made in <a href=\"https:\/\/postmediavancouversun.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/5_2_syroteuk.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2008<\/a> after they had spread\u00a0across the continent from a 1970s introduction in the\u00a0Bahamas. The bird is now fairly common around the Creston Flats.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13156\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/collareddove150305s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dark-eyed Junco is quite common in the spring as many move north to breed. This one\u00a0was singing.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13153\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/junco150326s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How does one lose a flock of swans? These were flying along the West Arm, but I couldn&#8217;t find their destination.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13154\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/swans150324s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Had I not seen\u00a0a Red-tailed Hawk fly to this tree, I would have never spotted it in the foliage.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13155\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/redtailedhawk150324bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On March 30<sup>th<\/sup>, a Tree Swallow arrived at pilings it previously used for nesting, but there it found a flicker. Of a group of three cavities suitable for\u00a0the swallow, two already held flickers and one is being explored by starlings. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13152\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/flicker_swallow150330s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; March closes with a handful of birds that just did not make the cut to have a posting of their own. The first local sightings of the Eurasian Collared Dove\u00a0were made in 2008 after they had spread\u00a0across the continent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=13151\">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-13151","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\/13151","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=13151"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13206,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions\/13206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}