{"id":35337,"date":"2026-02-14T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35337"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T01:10:50","slug":"killdeer-mid-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35337","title":{"rendered":"Killdeer mid-Feb"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

The earliest I had seen a Killdeer before today was in mid-March. Indeed, Hinterland Who’s Who states “Killdeer reach southern Canada as early as mid-March…”\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, why did Cynthia and I see one at Kokanee Creek Park today? Global warming?<\/p>\n

\u00a0A Killdeer was seen at Kokanee Creek Park this morning.
\n\"\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The earliest I had seen a Killdeer before today was in mid-March. Indeed, Hinterland Who’s Who states “Killdeer reach southern Canada as early as mid-March…”\u00a0 So, why did Cynthia and I see one at Kokanee Creek Park today? Global … Continue reading →<\/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-35337","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\/35337","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=35337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35340,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35337\/revisions\/35340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}