{"id":2574,"date":"2011-08-14T16:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T23:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2011-08-14T21:18:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T04:18:22","slug":"solitary-sandpiper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Solitary Sandpiper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequently seen shorebird here is probably the Spotted Sandpiper, yet, the Killdeer is also common. Only occasionally have I seen a Wilson\u2019s Snipe.<\/p>\n<p>However, yesterday was the first time I had seen a Solitary Sandpiper. To be sure, it wasn\u2019t actually along the shore of Kootenay Lake, but over 1400 metres above it on an alpine pond in Kokanee Glacier Park.\u00a0This area is at the southern limit of the Solitary Sandpiper\u2019s breeding range, so one would not expect them often. There are three pictures of it below.<\/p>\n<p>A Solitary Sandpiper flies toward the grassy edge of an alpine pond.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2575\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/solitarysandpiper110813es.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It alights.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2576\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/solitarysandpiper110813d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And starts hunting along the shore.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2577\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/solitarysandpiper110813bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most frequently seen shorebird here is probably the Spotted Sandpiper, yet, the Killdeer is also common. Only occasionally have I seen a Wilson\u2019s Snipe. However, yesterday was the first time I had seen a Solitary Sandpiper. To be sure, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2574\">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-2574","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\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}