{"id":3072,"date":"2011-10-08T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T19:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3072"},"modified":"2011-10-08T12:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T19:57:03","slug":"woody-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3072","title":{"rendered":"Woody wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3081\" style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3081\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3081\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/woodduck110922DKs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derek Kite&#39;s picture of the Wood Duck on Sept. 22.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stunning!<\/p>\n<p>I had thought\u00a0<a title=\"Harlequin ducks\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=1671\">Harlequin Ducks<\/a> were colourful. Yet, the Wood Duck (the woody) is, if anything, more so, even though the one, below, has yet to complete its moult to breeding plumage.<\/p>\n<p>For the past couple of weeks Derek Kite has been watching a male Wood Duck in Kokanee Creek Park. It was still in its non-breeding plumage when he found it (right).<\/p>\n<p>By yesterday, when I went with him to see it, the duck&#8217;s moult to breeding plumage was well under way and it was already really spectacular.<\/p>\n<p>The Wood Duck as seen on October 7<sup>th<\/sup>. It will only become grander as it completes its moult.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3074\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/woodduck111007bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With its wings partially raised, the lovely blues on the flight feathers are more evident.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3075\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/woodduck111007as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stunning! I had thought\u00a0Harlequin Ducks were colourful. Yet, the Wood Duck (the woody) is, if anything, more so, even though the one, below, has yet to complete its moult to breeding plumage. For the past couple of weeks Derek Kite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3072\">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-3072","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\/3072","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=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}