{"id":19126,"date":"2016-12-15T08:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19126"},"modified":"2016-12-15T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T16:21:38","slug":"golden-pearls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19126","title":{"rendered":"Golden pearls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As dippers worked a creek, it seemed as if they were pearl divers searching for rare golden orbs.<\/p>\n<p>If judged solely by\u00a0appearance, the dipper is a nondescript\u00a0little bird. That assessment changes when one watches the bird&#8217;s\u00a0antics: It is a songbird that <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3374\">flies underwater<\/a> to collect comestibles in swift mountain streams. Its palate appreciates items from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10123\">aquatic arthropods<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6825\">fry<\/a>, but particularly prized seem to be the fertilized golden eggs of the Kokanee salmon. True, the bird will also accept the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3482\">unfertilized pearly-white eggs<\/a>, but it seems to favour golden orbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A dipper retrieved three golden pearls and placed two on an ice shelf to be downed one at a time.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19127\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dipper161213s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; As dippers worked a creek, it seemed as if they were pearl divers searching for rare golden orbs. If judged solely by\u00a0appearance, the dipper is a nondescript\u00a0little bird. That assessment changes when one watches the bird&#8217;s\u00a0antics: It is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19126\">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":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-fish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126","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=19126"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19126\/revisions\/19159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}