{"id":30408,"date":"2021-04-28T20:29:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T03:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30408"},"modified":"2021-04-28T20:29:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T03:29:26","slug":"black-necked-stilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30408","title":{"rendered":"Black-necked Stilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Black-necked Stilt does not visit Kootenay Lake &#8212; or that is what the range maps of bird websites would have you believe. Indeed, I have not seen it here before. And the bird isn&#8217;t even listed in Cannings&#8217; book, <em>Birds of Interior BC and the Rockies<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet, in the last two weeks, this stilt has been seen from the Creston Flats (over 80 seen) to Kaslo (over 20 seen). Have they been seen in such numbers before?<\/p>\n<p>I went to the Harrop wetlands to look for them with my daughter. There was one. Which all things considered was, in of itself, an impressive number. Cynthia and I had comparable shots of the stilt feeding, but her shots of it flying excelled, so I just show them.<\/p>\n<p>A Black-necked Stilt lifts off from the Lake. A glance at those long (pink) legs reveals how it gained the name, stilt.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30409\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/blackneckedstilt210428bsccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cynthia&#8217;s picture of the stilt flying off has to be a classic for this region. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30410\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/blackneckedstilt210428as2ccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">Cynthia Fraser&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Black-necked Stilt does not visit Kootenay Lake &#8212; or that is what the range maps of bird websites would have you believe. Indeed, I have not seen it here before. And the bird isn&#8217;t even listed in Cannings&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=30408\">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-30408","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\/30408","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=30408"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30422,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30408\/revisions\/30422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}