{"id":18694,"date":"2016-09-23T08:06:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18694"},"modified":"2016-09-23T08:06:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:06:59","slug":"western-grebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18694","title":{"rendered":"Western Grebe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The picture, below, does not hint at\u00a0the satisfaction\u00a0of acquiring the shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Western Grebe comes to Kootenay Lake each\u00a0fall and leaves for the Coast a few months later. So there is ample time\u00a0to see it. The problem is that this bird stays far out on the Lake, and usually will not\u00a0deign to come close enough for a good picture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yestermorn, I was at the Nelson waterfront and wondered when Western Grebes might arrive. Derek Kite promptly pointed to a single one in the middle of the Lake. Although really distant, it seemed to be\u00a0moving our way. We moved along the shore until close enough to see the red of its eyes.<\/p>\n

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  The picture, below, does not hint at\u00a0the satisfaction\u00a0of acquiring the shot.\u00a0 The Western Grebe comes to Kootenay Lake each\u00a0fall and leaves for the Coast a few months later. So there is ample time\u00a0to see it. The problem is that … Continue reading →<\/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-18694","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\/18694","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=18694"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18721,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18694\/revisions\/18721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}