{"id":18538,"date":"2016-09-01T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T22:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18538"},"modified":"2016-09-01T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T22:22:55","slug":"seasonal-change-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18538","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The season is changing. Of course, children are going back to school, but other species are shifting over to the winter residents. Steller&#8217;s Jays are back, as are cedar bugs (aka, stink bugs).<\/p>\n<p>A sign of the shift for me is the arrival on August 30th of a Horned Grebe. They are\u00a0usually present,\u00a0except during the summer, when they breed farther north.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of a Horned Grebe in the dying days of August was welcomed. However, this one has a rather odd extrusion of flight feathers erupting from its side. Can it fly? Well, it did arrive here.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18539\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/hornedgrebe160830s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\n\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The season is changing. Of course, children are going back to school, but other species are shifting over to the winter residents. Steller&#8217;s Jays are back, as are cedar bugs (aka, stink bugs). A sign of the shift for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18538\">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-18538","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\/18538","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=18538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18541,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18538\/revisions\/18541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}