{"id":3918,"date":"2012-01-15T14:43:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T22:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2012-01-16T07:17:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T15:17:36","slug":"two-hundred-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3918","title":{"rendered":"Two-hundred meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it too much to hope for&#8212;a heron nest only two-hundred meters from my door?<\/p>\n<p>It is too early to be sure, but for nearly two weeks, I have watched two herons from the same spot. Sometimes they are flying, sometimes fishing, often standing in trees. A nascent nest is beginning to look likely.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, other things are seen (below) during these walks, but the possible nest is the exciting news.<\/p>\n<p>This morning a heron sat on the same branch as on other occasions; meanwhile its friend flew to a nearby tree.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3922\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/heron120115s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, while the first heron sat on that branch, its friend fished from a nearby piling.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3920\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/heron120113as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the same spot, a dipper is seen as it floats on the Lake between dives.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3923\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/dipper120113as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And only slightly farther along, a Common Goldeneye couple has been seen day after day.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3919\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/goldeneyescommon120111s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it too much to hope for&#8212;a heron nest only two-hundred meters from my door? It is too early to be sure, but for nearly two weeks, I have watched two herons from the same spot. Sometimes they are flying, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=3918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-3918","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\/3918","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=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}