{"id":4701,"date":"2012-04-06T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T21:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2012-04-29T06:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:59:03","slug":"horned-grebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"Horned Grebe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Grebe is frequently seen on the Lake, except, alas, when it is in its spectacular breeding plumage. From May to September it heads farther north to breed.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, while it is here, it is fun to watch as it repeatedly dives for fish. It seems to have a rather low success rate. This morning, I watched one dive dozens of times as it swam back and forth along the lakeshore, and only once did it come up with a small morsel.<\/p>\n<p>The Horned Greb dives.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4702\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hornedgrebe120406cs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On one occasion it surfaced with a small fish.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4703\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hornedgrebe120406bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then, seemingly, the grebe\u00a0poses.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4704\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/hornedgrebe120406as2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Horned Grebe is frequently seen on the Lake, except, alas, when it is in its spectacular breeding plumage. From May to September it heads farther north to breed. Nevertheless, while it is here, it is fun to watch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4701\">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-4701","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\/4701","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=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}