{"id":16689,"date":"2016-04-01T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16689"},"modified":"2016-04-02T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T15:44:49","slug":"ducks-in-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16689","title":{"rendered":"Ducks in trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ducks in trees? Given the day, this might sound as if it is an April Fool&#8217;s gag. It isn&#8217;t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About a half-dozen local ducks will nest in trees, among them, the beautiful Wood Duck. It is a bit early to see the nests, but these pictures show that nesting is on the ducks&#8217; minds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a terrible time of year to be alone on the pond.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16691\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/woodduck160328cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, big boy I am calling to you down there on the pond &#8212; yes, you.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16692\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/woodduck160328bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK, I came up into the tree with you &#8212; now what?&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16693\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/woodduck160328ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, maybe I will have to explain\u00a0this nesting business to you.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16690\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/woodduck160328as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ducks in trees? Given the day, this might sound as if it is an April Fool&#8217;s gag. It isn&#8217;t.\u00a0 About a half-dozen local ducks will nest in trees, among them, the beautiful Wood Duck. It is a bit early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=16689\">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-16689","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\/16689","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=16689"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16731,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions\/16731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}