{"id":35489,"date":"2026-04-17T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35489"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:38:51","slug":"two-more-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35489","title":{"rendered":"Two more migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In two days we have seen two nice migrants: a couple of Killdeer, and a Wood Duck.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we watched a Killdeer come in to land.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35492\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/killdeer20260716bs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It joined another and hobnobbed, but as long as we watched, they did not mate. <br \/>\nThe female, with the browner mask and breast band is on the left.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35491\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/killdeer20260716s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning we saw a male Wood Duck close by. It is not as common as the Killdeer.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35490\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/woodduck260417s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In two days we have seen two nice migrants: a couple of Killdeer, and a Wood Duck. Yesterday we watched a Killdeer come in to land. It joined another and hobnobbed, but as long as we watched, they did &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=35489\">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-35489","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\/35489","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=35489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35494,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489\/revisions\/35494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}