{"id":30282,"date":"2021-03-31T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30282"},"modified":"2021-03-31T16:26:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T23:26:33","slug":"march-goulash-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30282","title":{"rendered":"March goulash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a collection of interesting creatures taken this March that lacked a posting of their own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many are seeing Evening Grosbeaks this year. Why have they become relatively common?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30283\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/eveninggrosbeak210314s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the spring, we see two species of bluebirds: the Mountain Bluebird and the Western Bluebird. So far, I have only seen the Western, although others have seen the Mountain.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30285\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/westernbluebird210314s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago, we mainly saw Tundra Swans on the Lake during migration. Now, we mainly see Trumpeters. While Trumpeters are lovely to watch, whither the former Tundras?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30284\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/trumpeterswan210328s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Varied Thrush is plentiful at this time of year, but it is skittish and so isn&#8217;t easily approached.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/variedthrush210330as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mourning Cloak is both one of the longest-lived butterflies (11 or 12 months) and perhaps the first to appear in the spring. This is one of two seen on March 31<sup>st<\/sup>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/mourningcloak210331s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30302\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An interesting early season arrival is the Green-winged Teal. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/greenwingedteal210331s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is a collection of interesting creatures taken this March that lacked a posting of their own.\u00a0 Many are seeing Evening Grosbeaks this year. Why have they become relatively common? In the spring, we see two species of bluebirds: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30282\">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":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-bugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282","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=30282"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30307,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282\/revisions\/30307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}