{"id":2288,"date":"2011-07-14T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2011-07-14T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T02:21:52","slug":"1-8-now-9-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"1, 8, now 9 chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, I showed pictures of a mother Common Merganser wandering by with <a title=\"Water babies\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2037\">one chick<\/a>; later\u00a0<a title=\"Heron trumps chicks\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2129\">eight chicks<\/a>\u00a0came by. Today in the rain, another momma visited with nine chicks (two pictures below). At times they did the delightful merganser\u2013chick thing of hitching a ride on mother\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>So, is it too much to hope for a dozen next time?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2289\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mergansers110713bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2290\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/mergansers110713as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, I showed pictures of a mother Common Merganser wandering by with one chick; later\u00a0eight chicks\u00a0came by. Today in the rain, another momma visited with nine chicks (two pictures below). At times they did the delightful merganser\u2013chick thing of hitching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2288","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\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}