{"id":7287,"date":"2013-03-16T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2013-03-16T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T00:56:14","slug":"tundras-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"Tundras arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each spring we await the arrival of swans on Kootenay Lake. Certainly, they are prominent in my phenology.<\/p>\n<p>Swans have already been seen recently on the South and North Arms of the Lake. Yesterday, seven Tundra Swans were reported on the West Arm at Kokanee Creek Park. This morning, I went to see them. Alas, those swans had finished eating and had flown on their way.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately as I wandered around, ten more Tundras flew in. It was grand. Usually, I only get to see them feeding in the shallows, but this group offered me a flyby.<\/p>\n<p>Circling to lose altitude, seven of the ten tundras are seen as they approach the Lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7291\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tundraswans130316as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They fly right past me on their gently curved path.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7292\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tundraswans130316bs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ten of them touch down out in the deeper water of the Lake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7290\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tundraswans130316cs.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These tundras are\u00a0hungry. They have travelled a great distance and still have the flight to the high arctic ahead of them. So, having touched down, they promptly head to the shallows to feed. They are coming straight towards the portion of the shore where I am obscured by trees.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7289\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tundraswans130316ds.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I might note that dogs are prohibited from this portion of the Park&#8217;s beach. Yet, just as the hungry swans approach the feeding area, a man with two off-leash dogs saunters along the shore. The swans abruptly turn and flee to the deep water, unsated. Well, obviously those swans should have known better than to arrive on a weekend, a time when scofflaws abound.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7288\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"tundraswans130316es\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tundraswans130316es.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Each spring we await the arrival of swans on Kootenay Lake. Certainly, they are prominent in my phenology. Swans have already been seen recently on the South and North Arms of the Lake. Yesterday, seven Tundra Swans were reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7287\">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-7287","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\/7287","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=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7296,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/7296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}