{"id":34359,"date":"2025-03-10T08:11:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34359"},"modified":"2025-03-11T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:31:12","slug":"trumpeter-swans-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34359","title":{"rendered":"Trumpeter Swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For a bit over a week there have been between ten and thirty Trumpeter Swans visiting in the shallows at Kokanee Creek Park.<\/p>\n<p>This is a shot of into their midst on March 1st.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34360\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/trumpeterswan250301s2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Web sources that discuss birds, say that Trumpeter Swans lay from two to six eggs. Yet, I have seen swan couples with no chicks and often couples with only one. Seen yesterday, this couple had three (the greyish birds).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34361\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/trumpeterswan250309as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time I have seen a couple with as many as five chicks in a family.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34362\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/trumpeterswan250308bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An adult flaps its wings.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34363\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/trumpeterswan250308as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For a bit over a week there have been between ten and thirty Trumpeter Swans visiting in the shallows at Kokanee Creek Park. This is a shot of into their midst on March 1st. Web sources that discuss birds, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34359\">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-34359","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\/34359","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=34359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34359\/revisions\/34368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}