{"id":1352,"date":"2011-04-07T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2011-04-15T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T18:55:30","slug":"sleepy-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migration is hard work. The Tundra Swans that visit Kootenay Lake have travelled only about 800 kilometres of a 2,800 kilometre journey to the tundra of the Canadian Arctic where they will breed. Feeding and rest stops along the way\u00a0are needed, and both take place at Kootenay Lake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px 6px; margin-top: 4px; margin-left: 8px; width: 240px; float: right; clear: left; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: #dddddd 2px solid;\">The Kootenay Lake website offers other pictures of local <a href=\"http:\/\/kootenay-lake.ca\/birds\/swimmers\/swans\/tundras\/index.html\">Tundra Swans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today a flock of over three\u2013dozen Tundra Swans stopped by the West Arm. They settled on the lake between Troup (south shore) and Emory\u2019s Corner (north shore). This is not a shallow area and so there was not much evidence of feeding. Resting was another matter. Look at the final picture: two of the four swans shown have their eyes closed (look at their white eyes). Indeed, at any given moment, perhaps a third of the swans were asleep. How they managed to maintain their position is unclear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1362\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tundraswans110407cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"257\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1354\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/tundraswans110407as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1355\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/trundaswans110407bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migration is hard work. The Tundra Swans that visit Kootenay Lake have travelled only about 800 kilometres of a 2,800 kilometre journey to the tundra of the Canadian Arctic where they will breed. Feeding and rest stops along the way\u00a0are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1352\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","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\/1352","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=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}