{"id":34901,"date":"2025-09-14T07:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34901"},"modified":"2025-09-14T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:31:09","slug":"sabines-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34901","title":{"rendered":"Sabine&#8217;s Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sabine&#8217;s Gull is born along the Arctic Coast and spends its winters mainly along the Pacific Coast. It does not belong here. And yet here it was this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Well fair&#8217;s, fair. While most migrate over oceans, some individuals do migrate far inland. And that seems to be how we came to have these juveniles. A few others have been recorded here in the past few years (one by Paul Prappas in 2018). Yet, it was new to us.<\/p>\n<p>A juvenile Sabine&#8217;s Gull searches for food along the Kokanee Park coastline. Photo by Cynthia.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34903\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sabinesgull250913asCCF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then nearly an hour later and 50 metres away, it (or a sibling) was seen again.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34902\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/sabinesgull250913as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sabine&#8217;s Gull is born along the Arctic Coast and spends its winters mainly along the Pacific Coast. It does not belong here. And yet here it was this Saturday. Well fair&#8217;s, fair. While most migrate over oceans, some individuals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=34901\">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-34901","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\/34901","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=34901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34907,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34901\/revisions\/34907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}