{"id":29529,"date":"2020-09-21T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29529"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:49:30","slug":"dowitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29529","title":{"rendered":"Dowitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I casually started to watch local birds a dozen years or so ago, I posited that there was no point in paying attention to shorebirds &#8212; there were just too many similar ones.<\/p>\n<p>I adapt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With time, I realized that we have both the (rather few) standard summer residents, and the migrants (passing through, the shoulder-season visitors). So, from late July through September, I now watch for migrants.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I have seen fewer migrating shore birds, and certainly the wildfire smoke of the last week or so has kept the birds and me apart. I did see a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29440\">Greater Yellowlegs<\/a>\u00a0a month ago, but that was it &#8212; until this morning. I have just spotted a Long-billed Dowitcher foraging in a pond adjacent to the lakeshore.<\/p>\n<p>A Long-billed Dowitcher looks up briefly as it forages in a pond adjacent to the lakeshore.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/longbilleddowicher200921s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-29573\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When I casually started to watch local birds a dozen years or so ago, I posited that there was no point in paying attention to shorebirds &#8212; there were just too many similar ones. I adapt.\u00a0 With time, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=29529\">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-29529","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\/29529","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=29529"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29574,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29529\/revisions\/29574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}