{"id":15832,"date":"2015-12-08T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T23:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15832"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T03:01:54","slug":"7-swans-a-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15832","title":{"rendered":"7 swans a-swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It struck me as being a tad early in the month, but there they were, seven swans a-swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as soon as swans are seen on the Lake, the immediate question is: Are they Tundras or Trumpeters? In this case, I lean towards Tundras because of the shape and lack of heft of the bill, the way the neck is held, and the fact that the juvenile has already begun to lose its grey colouration. Yet, none of them show a yellow lore. I am open to suggestions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After swimming awhile, the swans took to the air. The\u00a0second picture shows five of them, including the juvenile, flying.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15834\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/swans151205as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15833\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/swans151205bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It struck me as being a tad early in the month, but there they were, seven swans a-swimming. Of course, as soon as swans are seen on the Lake, the immediate question is: Are they Tundras or Trumpeters? In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15832\">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-15832","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\/15832","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=15832"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15852,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15832\/revisions\/15852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}