{"id":15584,"date":"2015-11-23T06:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15584"},"modified":"2015-11-24T19:25:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T03:25:34","slug":"bufflehead-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15584","title":{"rendered":"Bufflehead landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Bufflehead\/id\" target=\"_blank\">range maps<\/a> that suggest otherwise, the Bufflehead Duck is a winter resident of Kootenay Lake. It is also both our smallest and (some have asserted) our cutest duck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curiously\u00a0despite an initial assessment that the male plumage is strictly\u00a0black and white, it can be surprisingly colourful. In some lightings, the\u00a0<em>black<\/em> on its head becomes\u00a0iridescent. See pictures in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3804\">a CBC trifling<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12189\">fetching birds<\/a>. Indeed, even in the picture below, some green appears on an otherwise black neck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Are those characteristics\u00a0the reason I have made this posting? Well, no. I just was captivated by this view of a male Bufflehead Duck landing on the water near the mouth\u00a0of Kokanee Creek.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15585\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bufflehead151121s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Despite some range maps that suggest otherwise, the Bufflehead Duck is a winter resident of Kootenay Lake. It is also both our smallest and (some have asserted) our cutest duck.\u00a0 Curiously\u00a0despite an initial assessment that the male plumage is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15584\">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-15584","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\/15584","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=15584"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15600,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15584\/revisions\/15600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}