{"id":8065,"date":"2013-06-10T18:53:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T01:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2013-06-10T20:48:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T03:48:42","slug":"loons-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8065","title":{"rendered":"Loon&#8217;s nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Loons thrive on Kootenay Lake, but you will look in\u00a0vain\u00a0for a nest here.<\/p>\n<p>Loons are clumsy on land&#8212;they are looney&#8212;and they cannot move their nests as the water level changes, so to nest adjacent to the water, they must find a lake where the water level does not change much through the spring. This is not Kootenay Lake, where the lake level might change by three metres during the breeding season.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, on some of the smaller alpine lakes in the\u00a0vicinity, loons will nest. Last year, some <a title=\"Canada Day loons\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=5743\">Canada Day loons<\/a>\u00a0were seen with a chick\u00a0on one of these little lakes. The same thing will probably be seen this year, for today, on that lake there was a loon seen sitting on her nest at the water&#8217;s edge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8066\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/loonnest130610s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Loons thrive on Kootenay Lake, but you will look in\u00a0vain\u00a0for a nest here. Loons are clumsy on land&#8212;they are looney&#8212;and they cannot move their nests as the water level changes, so to nest adjacent to the water, they must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8065\">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-8065","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\/8065","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=8065"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8065\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}