{"id":18817,"date":"2016-10-20T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18817"},"modified":"2016-10-20T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T15:49:09","slug":"snow-goose-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18817","title":{"rendered":"Snow Goose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Snow Geese are an uncommon sight around Kootenay Lake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, when I saw one (<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=15565\">Snow Goose<\/a>), I suspected that the juvenile I saw had wandered far\u00a0off its coastal migratory course to have ended up here. That is probably also true of yesterday&#8217;s juvenile Snow Goose, a bird that I would have missed had not Paul Prappas told me that there was one hanging out in a field near my home.<\/p>\n<p>Snow Geese usually travel in huge flocks. This local juvenile was alone.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18818\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/snowgoose161019s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Snow Geese are an uncommon sight around Kootenay Lake.\u00a0 A year ago, when I saw one (Snow Goose), I suspected that the juvenile I saw had wandered far\u00a0off its coastal migratory course to have ended up here. That is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18817\">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-18817","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\/18817","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=18817"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18829,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18817\/revisions\/18829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}