{"id":7877,"date":"2013-05-29T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T21:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2013-06-01T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T15:00:06","slug":"harlequin-ducks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7877","title":{"rendered":"Harlequin Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are no Harlequin Ducks in Kootenay Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Gaining its name from the male&#8217;s almost comical plumage, this small diving duck prefers a cold turbulent stream to a warm tranquil lake. Although the harlequin does not visit the Lake, it can be seen from a road that links West and South Arms. Well, all of this is true in the summertime; in the wintertime (<del>and in drabber plumage<\/del> <ins>see comment, below<\/ins>), harlequins head to Pacific coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p>The plumage of the male harlequin is almost\u00a0gaudy&#8212;it\u00a0is important to look good.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7879\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/harlequin130526as.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is true whether one is seen coming or going.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7878\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/harlequins130526bs2.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"719\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There are no Harlequin Ducks in Kootenay Lake. Gaining its name from the male&#8217;s almost comical plumage, this small diving duck prefers a cold turbulent stream to a warm tranquil lake. Although the harlequin does not visit the Lake, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=7877\">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-7877","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\/7877","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=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7890,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions\/7890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}