{"id":19801,"date":"2017-03-22T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19801"},"modified":"2017-03-22T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:24:41","slug":"killdeer-skating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19801","title":{"rendered":"Killdeer skating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Killdeers are the first shorebirds to arrive each year. They\u00a0have been reported from around the region for a week now. This year, some encountered ice.<\/p>\n<p>A frozen pond did not prove as inviting to an arriving\u00a0killdeer as would a watery shoreline.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19804\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/killdeer170320as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It decided to go elsewhere, but taking off from ice proved to be a dignity-destroying affair.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19803\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/killdeer170320bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It regained its footing only to look like a beginning skater.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19802\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/killdeer170320cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally airborne, it chirped its displeasure with ice in late March.\u00a0<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19805\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/killdeer170320ds.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Killdeers are the first shorebirds to arrive each year. They\u00a0have been reported from around the region for a week now. This year, some encountered ice. A frozen pond did not prove as inviting to an arriving\u00a0killdeer as would a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=19801\">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-19801","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\/19801","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=19801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19810,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19801\/revisions\/19810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}