{"id":5104,"date":"2012-05-08T16:46:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T23:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5104"},"modified":"2012-05-08T18:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:18:35","slug":"wood-duck-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5104","title":{"rendered":"Wood Duck nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Wood Duck is a beautiful oddity.<\/p>\n<p>The duck&#8217;s scientific name acknowledges its striking plumage;\u00a0<em>Aix sponsaa<\/em>\u00a0means waterfowl in wedding raiment. Although not unique in its oddity, it is unusual in that it chooses a tree in which to nest.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Kite found this Wood Duck nest high in a tree in Kokanee Creek Park. By the time I arrived the female had climbed down into the hollow of the snag, but the male stood atop and looked prepared to fend off intruders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5105\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/woodducknest120507s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Wood Duck is a beautiful oddity. The duck&#8217;s scientific name acknowledges its striking plumage;\u00a0Aix sponsaa\u00a0means waterfowl in wedding raiment. Although not unique in its oddity, it is unusual in that it chooses a tree in which to nest. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5104\">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-5104","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\/5104","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=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}