{"id":2314,"date":"2011-07-15T20:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T03:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T22:47:09","slug":"swallows-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2314","title":{"rendered":"Swallows two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so used to seeing Tree Swallows that I sometimes don\u2019t even notice that some other swallows may have turned up.<\/p>\n<p>I was watching the resident heron today (last picture), and swallows kept flitting by. Oh well, take a few pictures. But, they weren\u2019t tree swallows. The first was a Northern Rough\u2013winged Swallow, the second&#8230;, well, that was a problem. While it looked like a Violet-green Swallow, the throat and colours seemed wrong. The problem seems twofold: it is a juvenile and hasn&#8217;t yet attained full adult plumage. And Carol Pettigrew of Beaks (bird rescue) tells me that the sooty feathers are a result of malnutrition\u2014it has had an\u00a0inadequate supply of bugs.<\/p>\n<p>A Northern Rough\u2013winged Swallow.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2315\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/northernroughwingswallow110715s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A young malnourished Violet-green Swallow has sooty feathers.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2316\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/swallow110715s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"722\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And another picture of our resident Great Blue Heron.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2317\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/heron110715s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so used to seeing Tree Swallows that I sometimes don\u2019t even notice that some other swallows may have turned up. I was watching the resident heron today (last picture), and swallows kept flitting by. Oh well, take a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2314\">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-2314","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\/2314","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=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}