{"id":6359,"date":"2012-09-17T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2012-09-17T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T16:16:49","slug":"a-myth-isnt-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6359","title":{"rendered":"A myth isn&#8217;t born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In March of 2011, I captured a picture of the rarely seen three-legged killdeer. Last Saturday, I captured a picture of the rarely seen three-legged heron&#8212;this time in flight. Both pictures are below.<\/p>\n<p>Would such observations be sufficient to enable the more excitable local promoters to launch a mythology around three-legged birds? Perhaps not, the Okanagan&#8217;s ogopogo myth feeds upon crummy pictures, not good ones (see my own pictures of the <a title=\"Ogopogo\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=4559\">Ogopogo<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The three-legged killdeer seen in March 2011<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6360\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/killdeer110314a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The three-legged heron seen in September, 2012<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6361\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/heron120915s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In March of 2011, I captured a picture of the rarely seen three-legged killdeer. Last Saturday, I captured a picture of the rarely seen three-legged heron&#8212;this time in flight. Both pictures are below. Would such observations be sufficient to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6359\">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":[9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","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=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6363,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}