{"id":19551,"date":"2017-02-12T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19551"},"modified":"2017-02-12T09:12:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:12:58","slug":"persistent-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19551","title":{"rendered":"Persistent swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Typically, swans stop at\u00a0the Lake to feed only for a few days during their migrations north or south. However, there are two Trumpeters that have occupied the lakelet west of Kokanee Creek Park for about a month. I saw them as they flew in on January 12<sup>th<\/sup>, but only managed\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19363\">picture four days later<\/a>. Now a month later, they are still with us.<\/p>\n<p>I could get used to the idea of persistent winter swans.<\/p>\n<p>Two Trumpeter Swans have been hanging out west of Kokanee Creek Park for a month.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19552\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/trumpeterswan170131s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Typically, swans stop at\u00a0the Lake to feed only for a few days during their migrations north or south. However, there are two Trumpeters that have occupied the lakelet west of Kokanee Creek Park for about a month. I saw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19551\">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-19551","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\/19551","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=19551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19557,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19551\/revisions\/19557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}