{"id":132,"date":"2010-09-14T13:22:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-12-26T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T23:43:10","slug":"watching-kingfishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Watching kingfishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local checklists for birds assure me that kingfishers can be seen at any time of the year. And indeed, I have seen them year round. Yet, for a few years now, the only time I seem to get satisfactory pictures of them is in the late summer or early fall. Maybe it is happenstance, or maybe the arrival of the fledglings means that the numbers go up.<\/p>\n<p>The Kootenay-Lake\u00a0Website offers a discussion and more pictures of the local\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/nonpasserines\/kingfishers\/index.html\">kingfishers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, when a kingfisher is seen, it is perched on high (often a piling) and staring at the lake surface. It is watching for fish. This bird lacks the second rusty band; it is a male.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100813s.jpg\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100901s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100901s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100901s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another kingfisher staring ardently into the water.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100813s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100813s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100813s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This little fellow is almost certainly a juvenile.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-137\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100813bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100813bs.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100813bs-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The broad rusty band reveals this kingfisher to be a female.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100912s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100912s.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kingfisher100912s-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local checklists for birds assure me that kingfishers can be seen at any time of the year. And indeed, I have seen them year round. 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