{"id":7133,"date":"2013-02-08T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T02:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7133"},"modified":"2013-02-09T20:02:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T04:02:33","slug":"bohemians-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7133","title":{"rendered":"Bohemians in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that today, on the way to Kokanee Creek Park for a walk, I commented that I would really like to see some waxwings. Lo, there they were.<\/p>\n<p onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\">Before spotting the waxwings, I stopped near the mouth of the creek and took a panorama looking west. It is striking how little snow there is for early February. The north-facing mountain on the left is in shade while the south-facing mountain on the right is in sunlight. The bank on the far side of the creek is being eroded; bits of February&#8217;s dried grass overhanging it are reflected in the calm creek waters.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7134\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kokaneecreek130208s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A hundred metres to the east, there frolicked over a dozen Bohemian Waxwings. Between their frenetic activities and the difficulties of bird photography, I only managed a satisfactory picture of one as it sat on a Black Hawthorn.<em id=\"__mceDel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7135\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/waxwingbohemian130208s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The irony is that today, on the way to Kokanee Creek Park for a walk, I commented that I would really like to see some waxwings. Lo, there they were. Before spotting the waxwings, I stopped near the mouth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7133\">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":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133","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=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7142,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7133\/revisions\/7142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}