{"id":28337,"date":"2020-03-14T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28337"},"modified":"2020-03-14T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:39:29","slug":"tundra-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28337","title":{"rendered":"Tundra Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who needs yet more images of swans? After all, in my <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28229\">February goulash<\/a>, I commented that it had been such a good winter for seeing Trumpeter Swans that I was discarding pictures of them.<\/p>\n<p>However, much less common to see are the Tundra Swans. A decade ago, tundras seemed to dominate and it was uncommon to see trumpeters. But, in recent years the much smaller tundra has been a rarity. This winter, a few more tundras have been turning up locally. I don&#8217;t know what influences these things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three tundras were seen in a mixed flock. The tundras are not only the smaller of the two species, but don&#8217;t have as heavy a bill and frequently have a yellow patch of skin between the eye and bill.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28339\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/tundraswan200313as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, the much bigger Trumpeter Swans were also present, and I couldn&#8217;t resist getting a shot of one flapping its wings. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28338\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trumpeterswan200313as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Who needs yet more images of swans? After all, in my February goulash, I commented that it had been such a good winter for seeing Trumpeter Swans that I was discarding pictures of them. However, much less common to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=28337\">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-28337","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\/28337","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=28337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28343,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28337\/revisions\/28343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}