{"id":22377,"date":"2017-11-26T07:55:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22377"},"modified":"2017-11-26T07:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T15:55:06","slug":"iron-rich-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22377","title":{"rendered":"Iron-rich mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Swans have white plumage &#8212; eh?<\/p>\n<p>The Trumpeter Swan <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22340\">near the mouth of Kokanee Creek<\/a> is still there. Yestermorn, it was close enough to the shore for a detailed view.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A striking feature of our subject is that its head and neck are covered with blotchy rusty stains. What has happened to a swan&#8217;s canonical snow-white plumage?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The answer lies in the iron-rich waters and mud that were ingested during foraging at the Arctic breeding grounds. It is oxidized iron that gives some feathers their rusty hue.<\/p>\n<p>Our visiting Trumpeter Swan has been foraging in iron-rich mud. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22378\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trumpeterswan171125s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Swans have white plumage &#8212; eh? The Trumpeter Swan near the mouth of Kokanee Creek is still there. Yestermorn, it was close enough to the shore for a detailed view.\u00a0 A striking feature of our subject is that its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=22377\">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-22377","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\/22377","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=22377"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22405,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22377\/revisions\/22405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}