{"id":22340,"date":"2017-11-21T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22340"},"modified":"2017-11-21T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T22:29:18","slug":"swan-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22340","title":{"rendered":"Swan returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A migrating Trumpeter Swan is off the mouth of Kokanee Creek. Others have seen one at the Park for a few weeks, but this is my first sighting, albeit it far out on the Lake.<\/p>\n<p>A Mallard couple has promptly taken advantage of the swan&#8217;s presence. With its long neck the trumpeter can feed in deeper water than can a dabbling Mallard. But, when the swan stirs up edibles from the bottom, the Mallards can feed in deeper waters.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22341\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trumpeterswan1711221s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A migrating Trumpeter Swan is off the mouth of Kokanee Creek. Others have seen one at the Park for a few weeks, but this is my first sighting, albeit it far out on the Lake. A Mallard couple has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22340\">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-22340","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\/22340","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=22340"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22348,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22340\/revisions\/22348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}