{"id":35227,"date":"2025-11-30T20:40:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35227"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:40:30","slug":"tundra-and-trumpeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35227","title":{"rendered":"Tundra and Trumpeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I saw mainly Tundra Swans around the west arm of Kootenay Lake. Now I see mainly Trumpeter Swans here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there have been Trumpeters here for the last few days, although when I looked this morning, there was only one to be seen. Nevertheless, we can expect to see swans here for a few months before they head north.<\/p>\n<p>A Trumpeter Swan was seen at Kokanee Creek Park this morning.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35229\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/trumpeterswan251130s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, around the south end of Kootenay Lake, about 3 dozen Tundra and Trumpeter Swans spent time feeding and flying around. Here is one group of the Tundra Swans having a spat. Photo by Cynthia Fraser<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35228\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tundraswan251130s2ccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Years ago, I saw mainly Tundra Swans around the west arm of Kootenay Lake. Now I see mainly Trumpeter Swans here.\u00a0 Indeed, there have been Trumpeters here for the last few days, although when I looked this morning, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35227\">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-35227","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\/35227","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=35227"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35233,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35227\/revisions\/35233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}