{"id":5654,"date":"2012-06-26T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T23:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2012-06-26T22:31:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:31:54","slug":"high-water-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"High-water loon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5659\" style=\"width: 366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5659\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5659\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/loon2007s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This loon, taken five years ago, wouldn&#8217;t pass muster today.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I look back at my earlier pictures of loons, I find that a\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0large number of them were taken in late June during the freshet.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s loon visited at sunset.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe its approach was encouraged by the inordinately high water, but the loon came much closer to me than had any previous one.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting shots also represent the high-water mark for my loon photography.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5655\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/loon120625bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5683\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/loon120625cs8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5656\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/loon120625as.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When I look back at my earlier pictures of loons, I find that a\u00a0surprisingly\u00a0large number of them were taken in late June during the freshet. Yesterday&#8217;s loon visited at sunset. Maybe its approach was encouraged by the inordinately high &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5654\">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-5654","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\/5654","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=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5688,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}