{"id":33852,"date":"2024-10-07T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33852"},"modified":"2024-10-07T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T02:30:07","slug":"dowitcher-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33852","title":{"rendered":"Dowitcher redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Long-billed Dowitcher has now been here for at least three days. I posted some pictures a few days ago: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33834\">Long-billed Dowitcher<\/a>, but went back with Cynthia to see it again. Recall, it is mid-migration; it came from the arctic coast and will soon continue south, probably to Mexico. It still has a long way to go. Stopping here, it has spent all of its time just feeding. By Monday (Oct. 7) the bird had gone.<\/p>\n<p>For days, this bird persistently thrust its long bill deep into the muddy floor of a shallow freshwater pond. The pond depth was often 2 to 8 cm, which is ideal for its feeding. The tip of a Long-billed Dowitcher\u2019s bill has receptors that let it locate prey by touch. Seen here, it is sucking some prey up its long bill. Photo by Cynthia Fraser.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33873\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/longbilleddowitcher241005cCCFs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Generally, it eats larvae of insects with occasional plant matter and seeds. This is probably an insect larva. Photo by Cynthia.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33866\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/longbilleddowitcher241005bCCFs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because its bill often was deep in sandy muck, seeing it bring something up above water happened quickly and rarely. <br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33863\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/longbilleddowitcher241005as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"721\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here it took a short break to fluff its feathers. Photo by Cynthia.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33865\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/longbilleddowitcher241005aCCFs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three days of steady eating has made it fatter. This picture shows the dowitcher and its clear reflection in shallow water.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33853\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/longbilleddowitcher241005bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Long-billed Dowitcher has now been here for at least three days. I posted some pictures a few days ago: Long-billed Dowitcher, but went back with Cynthia to see it again. Recall, it is mid-migration; it came from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33852\">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-33852","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\/33852","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=33852"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33881,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33852\/revisions\/33881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}