{"id":23603,"date":"2018-05-24T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T23:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23603"},"modified":"2018-05-24T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T23:38:54","slug":"merganser-mommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23603","title":{"rendered":"Merganser mommy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Postings this May have been dramatic: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23361\">spatting redwing blackbirds<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23409\">loons fighting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23439\">mallard being raped<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23525\">grizzlies foraging<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23575\">many mating toads<\/a>. Maybe it is time for a lovely, but non-dramatic, sighting: a family of Common Mergansers.<\/p>\n<p>Two merganser chicks ride on mommy&#8217;s back while five more draft her.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23604\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/merganser180524s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Postings this May have been dramatic: spatting redwing blackbirds,\u00a0loons fighting, mallard being raped, grizzlies foraging, many mating toads. Maybe it is time for a lovely, but non-dramatic, sighting: a family of Common Mergansers. Two merganser chicks ride on mommy&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=23603\">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-23603","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\/23603","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=23603"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23613,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23603\/revisions\/23613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}