{"id":15364,"date":"2015-10-28T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T23:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15364"},"modified":"2015-12-12T01:01:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T09:01:05","slug":"swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15364","title":{"rendered":"Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We receive welcome visits from swans twice a year when they stop by on their migrations, usually centred on March and November. So, this morning&#8217;s visit of some swans was timely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, which of our two species appeared, Tundra or Trumpeter? Although they differ in a number of ways, it is difficult to tell them apart from\u00a0a distance. That this family of four were Trumpeters was decided by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the heavy bills that lacked yellow lores;<\/li>\n<li>the calls they made to one another;<\/li>\n<li>the way the neck was kinked when they were in the water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four Trumpeter Swans flew westward to Kokanee Creek Park from the Main Lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15366\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trumpeterswan151028s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have seen swans many times, but this was the first time I listened to them calling to one another.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15365\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/trumpeterswan151028bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We receive welcome visits from swans twice a year when they stop by on their migrations, usually centred on March and November. So, this morning&#8217;s visit of some swans was timely.\u00a0 But, which of our two species appeared, Tundra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15364\">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-15364","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\/15364","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=15364"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15393,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions\/15393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}