{"id":14911,"date":"2015-09-08T17:04:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T00:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14911"},"modified":"2015-09-08T20:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T03:01:05","slug":"loons-rafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14911","title":{"rendered":"Loons rafting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Common Loon doesn&#8217;t nest on Kootenay Lake. The spring freshet would flood the nests it must make\u00a0on the edge of the shore. Rather,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10985\">loons nest<\/a>\u00a0on little mountain lakes high above Kootenay Lake. During\u00a0this nesting\u00a0time, the bird is territorial and will drive off competitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, when the breeding season is over and they\u00a0prepare for their migration to the Pacific Coast, loons are social. They gather in (what are called) rafts on those larger lakes that have abundant fish. Kootenay Lake serves them well as they prepare for migration. We can hope to see rafts of loons here for the next month.<\/p>\n<p>A raft of loons swims by as it hunts for fish.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14912\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/loon150908s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Common Loon doesn&#8217;t nest on Kootenay Lake. The spring freshet would flood the nests it must make\u00a0on the edge of the shore. Rather,\u00a0loons nest\u00a0on little mountain lakes high above Kootenay Lake. During\u00a0this nesting\u00a0time, the bird is territorial and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=14911\">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-14911","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\/14911","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=14911"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14925,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14911\/revisions\/14925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}