{"id":5743,"date":"2012-07-01T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T01:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2012-07-01T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T01:04:06","slug":"canada-day-loons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5743","title":{"rendered":"Canada Day loons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The breeding range of the Common Loon is nearly coincident with Canada. I suspect that is why a loon appears on our one-dollar coin&#8212;the loonie. Given this situation, it seems appropriate to post a Canada Day\u00a0picture of a loon family.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, while I have seen many loons on Kootenay Lake, I have never seen a chick. Loons do not breed on Kootenay Lake: the variation in spring-time water level is too great for them to nest along the shore. Rather, they breed on the smaller lakes higher in the mountains. And that is where I watched this chick with its parents, today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5744\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/loons120701s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The breeding range of the Common Loon is nearly coincident with Canada. I suspect that is why a loon appears on our one-dollar coin&#8212;the loonie. Given this situation, it seems appropriate to post a Canada Day\u00a0picture of a loon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5743\">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-5743","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\/5743","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=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5749,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions\/5749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}